"What’s the best present you’ve ever received?"

In the movie, Father of the Bride, the young groom-to-be gives his bride-to-be a wedding gift. He gives her a supremely practical, utterly useful, commonsense gift. He gives her a blender.

When the bride-to-be opens her gift, she bursts into tears, runs up to her room, and calls off their wedding. Why?

If you don't know why, then you've probably given your wife a blender. No, seriously, if you don't know why, then you don't know the joy of receiving a gift you never would have thought to ask for. Besides, what's the good of a gift you could give yourself? You see, when you unwrap a gift you never would have thought to ask for, you also discover joy and happiness, love and compassion, surprise and excitement.

Every day God gives us a gift that we can’t give ourselves and probably never would have thought to ask for. What’s the gift? The gift is this very moment. Yea I know it’s Monday, but unwrap this moment and listen to life and make a life, not just a living today.

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