giving good gifts

i LOVE giving gifts....

i can't tell you how many times i buy or make something that i just loooooove and have the hardest time wrapping it up because i want to either look at it or keep it.

i've been known to have a hard time keeping them a secret (and have even given a few early on occasion) because i just cannot wait

when Christmas came this year, i was downright giddy to give the girls the gifts i had been storing up since summer

i've already got valentine's treats and easter basket goodies that i've taken out, organized and put away, only to take out again, re-organize and put away again (mostly just because i like looking at them)

anyway, i'm rambling...

the other day i was reading in Matthew 7

"If you sinful people know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good gifts to those who ask him."

whoa....here i am bursting with excitement about the tea set i just made my niece for her birthday.

making sure the letters are just right, picking out fancy napkins and making felt tea bags with cute little cupcakes in a pretty bag and painting wooden blocks with glitter to look like sugar cubes.

and God gets MORE excited about giving me my heart's desires

my Father wants EVEN MORE DESPERATELY to give me all the perfect details according to His will

i don't need to worry about how, in the WIDE WORLD, we are ever going to fit our growing family into this little house.

God has a plan...and all the details are perfectly laid out in that

He's working on it...patiently waiting to reveal it to me

wanting it to be just right

i don't need to worry about what my job will look like 10 years from now...the gift is being designed...perfected...and i will unwrap  it in His most excellent timing

i don't need to worry about who my children will choose as friends

the Lord, whom i trust, is working it all out for our good...

...these lovely gifts that He's giddy about giving me.

of course, i don't believe for one moment that all this means that life is just peachy

i know that there are things that are downright awful that happen in this world and i won't pretend to understand why

but, His Word says that He's into giving good gifts....really good, awesome, detailed gifts

thank you, Lord for teaching me this

thank you for opportunities to see your Word in my life

and thank you, in advance, for the good gifts that i can expect as your beloved child