This evening our church hosted a Mission Fair for the weekly children’s program. Church members made displays describing what $1 or $5 could buy for a charitable agency, and children “shopped” the charities and made their donations.
One boy was shocked when he visited the medical mission display. His mother said, “Look, two dollars buys a vaccine for a little boy or girl so they will stay healthy. A vaccine is a shot.” The boy’s mouth dropped, as if to say, people pay for shots?
Sometimes the best gifts are not exactly what we had hoped for, and sometimes the best gifts cost little if any money. What a gift, to be free from a disease that could prematurely end your life. However, in the eyes of a child, the syringe doesn’t look much like a gift!
What good gifts have you received? What good gifts may you be missing now because you have trouble believing they are true?
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