The Gift

Each day is a gift.  A gift is something given, something which comes to us from someone other than ourselves.  A gift is something which speaks of kindness and care on the part of the one who gives the gift.  A gift brings us joy.  Ir creates a heart filled with gratitude on the part of the one who receives the gift.  It is an expression of an important existing relationship      

Each day is a gift.  It comes to us not because we deserve it, not because it is something to which we are entitled, but because of the gracious kindness and mercy of the Creator God who has brought us into being.  He not only brought us into being in the womb of conception, but He has also blessed us with the unrolling of more days than we can easily count.  We do not live in a vacuum, but within the loving heart of God who has created us to belong to Him and be a part of a family of Kingdom dwellers.     

Each day is a gift.  Unfortunately, it comes with such regularity and frequency with one looking so much like a thousand which have already come that we take the gift of today for granted.  Taking something for granted diminishes the gratitude and the joy.  It is a shame.  Though the day itself is gift enough, within the gift come such wonderful things as time to live, to laugh, and to love.  How blessed we are to be able to receive these gifts once again from a kind and loving heavenly Father.