December 11

I crocheted a light blue poncho out of a few skeins of beautiful bamboo yarn earlier this year. I've never been a big poncho girl, but I decided I like this one enough to keep it. I told myself it'd look cute over a plain white shirt or lightweight sweater, but since I didn't own one of those, it's been living on a hanger in my closet.

And today, while I was at Costco looking for something else entirely, I happened to walk by a table that promised v-neck sweaters for $6.97. I immediately thought of my poncho and then noticed the all-caps additional text on the sign --NO SMALL OR MEDIUM-- and started to walk away. 

But then I saw this --an errant Medium, just the size that I wanted-- sitting atop the pile. I scooped it up and checked out (and yes, when I got home I tried it on and it will work well).

Anyway, to my point: God wants us to be grateful for the big gifts He gives us; for our health and our families and our friends and our homes and our jobs. That's a given. But He also wants us to be grateful for the very small things, like a Medium-sized sweater that pairs well with a handmade poncho. And I am.