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Receiving a gift is one of the most gratifying feelings in the world; the delight felt is not directly from receiving an object, or thing of value. A gift is far more important than that, as you are in fact receiving something else, something far more precious than any material possession. Love - it cannot be bought, stolen or demanded but is something that is given freely from the heart to those we adore most…
I have been fortunate to receive many gifts in my life, the one’s that stay in my mind and in my heart are those of least monetary value, and very simple in nature. The reason for this is because the person who gave them to me was thinking of me, how I was feeling at that time and chose to give a gift that was from their heart.
My most prized gift was after the birth of my third child, who was a surprise arrival. All of my life since I was a child I had dreamt of having a beautiful little girl. As a child I was very lonely and longed for the company of a sister to play with, sadly for me my mother could not conceive any more children after me; I was alone a lot of the time. So I decided when I grew up I would have a little girl of my own…
Many years later I met my husband and a year or so later we had our first child, he was a beautiful bouncing baby boy, with golden hair and a smile that lit up the world, I adored him and lavished all of my affections upon him, yet he wasn’t the beautiful baby girl that I had hoped for.
Several years later I fell pregnant again, this time I hoped that I would have my beautiful baby girl and then my family would be complete, instead I had another bouncing baby boy, I loved and adored him too, although I did wish for a girl. After having two children we decided that we had enough children and I gave up all hopes of ever having a daughter.
Than one day I found out that I was ‘unexpectedly’ expecting! Even though I had been very careful and had not been planning for this to happen, I was sure that this would be my little girl. Quite a few months later I was holding my darling little girl, my miracle little girl, and on that day I was given a gift that was worth more to me than any expensive gift, and it come in the form of a simple little card hand made by my mother, in that card my mother told me that “if you want something bad enough, if you pray for it long enough - then sometimes miracles do happen!”
Isn’t life funny, a small piece of paper with some hand written words means more to me than any trinket ever could, the moral of my story is that gifts- real gifts come from the heart not from the hip pocket.
