The Smallest of Gifts

“Who despises the day of small things?”

Zechariah 4:10a

• My children love to give me gifts. I have whole collections of stickers, dried dandelions, rocks, and artwork adorning various windowsills and shelves in my home. My youngest is now one and a half and has begun to shower me with her own wonderful child-gifts. Today, as we sat together on the beach, she gave me . . . sand. Handfuls and handfuls of it. The first handfuls were wet, and I used them to build a small castle tower beside my beach chair. But the gifts became increasingly more and more dry, and I found I could no longer even save them long enough to pile them. I see my children’s childhood slipping through my fingers just like that sand. In a distant future day that will seem like only hours from this minute, my daughter may well be accepting precious child-gifts from her own daughter. Today’s Scripture reminds me to enjoy the gift of each day—and all the precious little things that inhabit it. Every day, every brief second is a precious gift.

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