WINNING THE LOTTERY
Today's reading: Psalm 125-127

It's like being presented with a huge check for winning the lottery--and you didn't even purchase a ticket!

It's like being presented with the loveliest, most wonderful birthday present--and your birthday is still months away!

It's like receiving a bank statement for an account, a rather substantial account, in your name--and you'd had no clue it existed!

It's like receiving an A+ on the top of a test paper--and you didn't remember taking the test!

It's like, well, it's like, finding out on Christmas morning after all the gifts had been unwrapped, all but the shreds of wrapping paper remain and clean-up is beginning, that there's a large, elaborately decorated gift left to open--and it's got your name on it!

"Children are a gift from the Lord; they are a reward from him." Psalm 127:3 NLT

Is it like that all the time? I'll have to say, 'no'. I needed the reminder. I take for granted what God has blessed me with in the form of a little boy. I errantly think since I was the one enduring the unmedicated labor and delivery that he is somewhat a product of my hard work and genetic offering. He's not. He's 100%, to the nth degree, without a doubt a gift from God. The gift part I understand. The reward part? I've done nothing that deserves such a blessing as him...but I'll take it!