Generosity

How are you this bright and wonderful day? I am alive and doing well today. Just bought a new couch and hope to get it today; leather with recliners on the ends - brown to go with the Kilim beige walls. Should look good. My wife gave our couch and recliner to our son; I guess she thought that he needed it worse than we did. So, she had a recliner and I had a lawn chair. Honestly, I think she wanted new and knew that this was about the only way her cheap hubbie would go for it - cause I would give my kids any thing they want - and, of course, I would give her any thing too.
- Mike (from an e-mail)

(Daddy LOVED to spoil us...all of us! He enjoyed taking care of us; buying us things we needed or wanted. I know you have all heard that expression, "He'd give you the shirt right off his back." Well, I think it was written about Daddy. He was generous...to his family, his friends, his church and even strangers. He gave away cars (I know at least one person he gave 2 cars to! Technically, he thought he was selling them, but when the person never paid, my dad never said a word. And, after the person didn't pay for the first car, he still let them buy the 2nd! He figured they must need the money more than he did!), bought people cars, groceries, lunch and dinner, and more that I can't even think to list and some I probably don't even know about. That is a lesson that I hope I learned and one I hope to teach to Grace. Be generous, because God will be generous in return).