--Do We Seek Jesus and the Things of God?

--"What wilt thou give?" / [Hosea 9:14 / KJV) -

---I tried to think of something special to make my husband's face light up at Christmas. Gene had once shared a childhood memory about the boy who lived down the hill from him back in Indiana. His friend had received a new bicycle for Christmas and Gene had ridden it a few times. But Gene had never been able to have one of his own.

We happened by a store and I pointed out a spiffy bicycled in the window. "I just might get you one, " I said teasingly. .
"I do not need a bicycle. Do not get me one, Gene said emphatically. Deflated, I said nothing.

Later that week we were reading our mail in the living room. Gene with his pile, me with mine. "Here's the bicycle I want, honey," he announced loudly. Was he teasing me?

I moved over next to him and looked at the catalog he was holding.. It showed a bike surrounded by an overjoyed father, a smiling mother, and seven skinny, happy children. They lived in an underdeveloped country, and the bike would provide transportation so the father could get a job. The catalog explained that anyone could give a bicycle, garden seeds, or even an ox.

Gene got his bicycle for Christmas--and halfway around the world lives would be changed forever. ~

--"Father, I have so much to learn about true giving. Teach me.
--Guideposts/ MBW
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