There is at least one more story from my travels – this one is remembering a sweet gesture from 2 young boys sitting in the airplane seats ahead of me. We were in a jovial section of the back of the plane – behind me were many girl scouts – and in front of me were National Geographic-signed up travelers – all enjoyed the Galapagos Islands.
The woman next to me was chatty and the boys overheard me asking her where she is from – and they chimed in before her and said Germany – well, this woman was so shocked because it was only one conversation, she said, at a dinner, where she mentioned her roots – but she lived in California for a while now… These boys picked up on the info – internalized it – shared it – a gift of recall. And a gift of friendliness.
Later in the flight – more conversations between seats and I handed up two little plastic flamingos – gifts I brought WITH me – gave many out to whomever I thought… A gift – no need to give me something back – just for fun. But when I handed the two statues up – the little boys decided to gift me each a purple skittle from their candy – so sweet – the action and the candy.
I didn’t expect any return gift from my gift – I just enjoyed seeing the oohs and aahs from people receiving them. I think that the sweetness of the candy came from a “oh we should give a return gift” – which is not always necessary… and so we simply take the nice return gesture as nice – kids with good upbringing… Sweet…
How about the gift and gifts from the Lord? Well, we could never repay the fill of gifts that He gives us – we could never pay anything worthy of what He gives us – His Grace – His Mercy – His Life – His Everything for our Anything. And so we don’t pay it backwards – we pay it forwards – and share His Gifts with others – and we share PRAISE about Him to whomever will listen…
A Gift is a Gift – and a God Gift is well, WOW!
Well, I am glad those little boys got to go to the Galapagos – I am glad they are included in travel and in conversations and in life – they will be gifts to whomever they meet down the road – paying it forward – and sometimes back between the seats where only an eye is seen…
Sweet…
Amen
Debbie Upper 
The Widow’s Two Mites
Luke 21 And He looked up and saw the rich putting their gifts into the treasury, 2 and He saw also a certain poor widow putting in two mites. 3 So He said, “Truly I say to you that this poor widow has put in more than all; 4 for all these out of their abundance have put in offerings for God, but she out of her poverty put in all the livelihood that she had.”
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