Field of Daisies

Jenna

I have the sweetest little girl in the whole wide world! But let me lay a little groundwork first, before I get too far ahead of myself....

Jenna has recently been limited to shopping only once a month--due to an overactive shopping gene (can't imagine where she got that!?!), and today was her shopping day for the month of May. She had been asking for the past two days if we would take her to Toys R Us so she could buy something, so Joel took her this afternoon.

Joel said the first thing Jenna wanted to buy was, amazingly enough, something for her brother! (How sweet is that?) She said he was missing one Bionicle from his collection and she wanted to buy it for him.

When she got home, she brought it to me (beaming, I might add!), and asked me to help her wrap it up for him. She was more excited about that than what she bought for herself.

That's just one of those rare moments--between the fussing, fighting, pestering, and annoying--that warms the cockles of my heart. (What are cockles, anyway?) All I know is that it made my day!

I couldn't help but think about the correlation to our heavenly Parent. He must be similarly thrilled when one of His children gives unselfishly out of love to another of His children. Hmmmm. Y'think that's why He stressed it so often in His Word that we should love one another? That's somethin' to think about....!

[Jesus said:] "This is My commandment, that you love one another,
just as I have loved you." John 15:12