Well this past week I've been in a funk. Yesterday I got this message in my Daily WOW email.
“I was sitting behind two teenage girls on a bus.
One of them was upset because her parents couldn’t
afford to buy a dress she had wanted. She didn’t
really like her second choice. ‘Then Mom was
upset because I didn’t say thank you,’ she
complained. ‘I don’t know what she expected me to
say thank you for!’ Ungrateful child, I thought.
Not long after that, I began pondering the promise
of ‘a blessing that there shall not be room enough
to receive it’ (3 Ne. 24:10). Although I had been
paying my tithing and fulfilling my other obligations,
I did not feel overwhelmed with blessings. In fact,
I felt that I had little to be grateful for. Suddenly,
my experience on the bus flashed through my mind.
I, too, had been an ungrateful child. First as a
trickle and then increasing to a torrent, there came
to me a powerful awareness of the blessings
I had received. From tiny everyday blessings to the
great blessing of the Atonement, the gifts God had
given me were both abundant and wondrous. The
windows of heaven had been open all the time.
I just hadn’t noticed.”
Carolyn Wright, Tambuli, Nov 1994, 11
What does this have to do with quarters-
I was stressed about money like usual
this week and in general just feeling
sorry for myself. And wondering why
pay tithing I never see blessings from
it. Last night I went down stairs to do
laundry I Didn't take enough quarters.
I was one short. I groaned.
I loaded the laundry and looked at the
machine with a little disgust. Right
there in the coin return slot was quarter
some one had left!
The first thought that came to me was
its one of those small blessings we
overlook.
I now think of it as my quarter form
Heaven. I love the ways Heavenly Father
reminds us of his love.
