Making Salsa and Getting Back Kisses

I've been sick all weekend. UGH. And not the I can keep doing things sick. And not the stay in bed all day sick. I'm stuck somewhere in the middle. (Better today though...I think) Yesterday was Sunday and I stayed home sick...in bed and laying on the couch almost all day. I've gone through 1 box of tissues and I'm working on the 2nd. Usually I worry about all that I need to do and feel guilty for what I can't do and then outdo myself and my strength. Not this weekend though. I did what I could when I could and I rested the rest of the time with no guilt.

Dave came home with a jar with a note and a treat in it. I just looked at it quickly last night. This morning it was still on the coffee table so I investigated more thoroughly. It was a jar that I gave a friend full of salsa and she returned it with kisses...the chocolate kind. She had enclosed a sweet note of encouragement.

I love how God puts us each in His family with our particular gifts. In my Thursday Ladies Bible study we are studying in Ephesians how we are fit together. I totally agree! My gift was salsa and her gift was chocolate. Both different gifts, both good gifts, both gifts needed at the time they were given.

God used this simple chocolate gift to remind me that I can be myself...in fact He wants me to be myself with my particular gifts in His family and that others will be themselves as well. When we are all using our gifts then we have a variety of gifts to meet the variety of needs. Gifts to heal and bring encouragement, gifts to bring spice and sweetness! And He fits us all together in the His family!

"And in him you too are being built together to become a dwelling in which God lives by his spirit." Ephesians 2:22