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Amazing Gifts in Brown Paper Packages
By Dina Dove of The Bagladys Guide to Elegant Living Author
By the time you read this I’ll be in New York City attending the BEA (Book Expo America)in New York. Exciting things always happen there. But, of course, exciting things happen everywhere at every moment. Most often we fail to notice them. They are so subtle, so ‘unimportant looking’… like packages wrapped in plain brown paper. Some of the most important things and some of the most important people fail to impress us at first blush. We tend to judge a book by its cover. We make an early snap judgment based on appearances. If someone is bigger than life, famous, and throws around the names of their ‘important cronies’ or their ‘grand accomplishments,’ we tend to look on them in awe and rush to be near them and their perceived power. We look right past what we consider to be the small, inconsequential people standing right in front of us. Sam Walton drove the same old pickup for years. You could likely to run across him in a bibbed overalls looking like an old farmer. Imagine him driving on a new car lot in that truck. Can’t you just see the salesmen looking at each other, hoping someone else will go out and waste their time on the old man? Jesus was born in a lowly manger. No innkeeper would even make room for him. Mary and Joseph came into town, dusty from a long trip… not looking very important. An amazing thing was about to happen. Some lucky innkeeper could have played a big part in the story, but it all looked very ordinary and unimportant to him. He dismissed them without regard. And now who can forget Susan Boyle, a Scottish matron with the voice of an angel. She came on stage a few weeks ago on a UK talent program. The camera shot to the judges who were all rolling their eyes. The audience was snickering. She didn’t look like a star. In fact, they thought she was joke. Then she opened her mouth and brought the world to its feet. Each person born to earth is amazing in their own special way, not to be looked past, or around, not to be ignored. Brown paper packages… amazing gifts inside. |
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