Generosity

Yesterday, my son bought an X-box game for sixty-two dollars - only he doesn’t have an X-box.  When I asked him why he did this, he said that a young boy who sells papers had lost his X-box game while selling papers downtown, so he and some of the other teenagers went looking for this X-box game but could not find it.  So, he bought a new one for him.  Again, I asked him why and he said, “you should have seen this kid’s face when we couldn’t find his game.”

This is not the only example of our son’s generosity.  Once, when Kenneth was a young boy, Deanna and I were talking about our financial situation in the dining room and our son came in and said that he could help by giving us his allowance.  Another time a couple of years ago he and Abigail saved their paper route money to pay for a day at the water park in Denver.  They also paid for all of us and all of their cousin’s family to go.

Sometimes you can become rich by being generous or poor by being greedy. Generosity will be rewarded: Give a cup of water, and you will receive a cup of water in return.   (Proverbs 11:24-25)

I am amazed at the generosity of my son.  But I shouldn’t be – he is just like his Father.  No, not me - Kenneth is like his Heavenly Father – generous to a fault!

Father, help me to have a generous heart – help me to be more like my son and You.  Amen