Today is the day we Americans remember how Columbus “discovered” our land.
I offer a couple thoughts:
How often do we let our expectations define our discoveries? How often are we partly right? How often are we wrong like Columbus?
Remember this snippet of Scripture:
1 Corinthians 13:12
Now I know in part.
We don’t know it all. We could be wrong.
Some blessings are basic, some are bountiful:
Basic: daily bread
Bountiful: daily meat, fresh veggies, coffee & chocolate
Basic: safe shelter
Bountiful: my own room in a house of many rooms
Basic: clothes on my back
Bountiful: a closet filled with the latest fashions
Either way, you are blessed.
Philippians 4:12 (MSG)
I’ve learned by now to be quite content whatever my circumstances. I’m just as happy with little as with much, with much as with little.
I noticed a few small blessings today and whispered a prayer of thanks.
How many itty bitty blessings came my way today, I wonder, that I didn’t notice?
1 Thessalonians 5:18 (NIV)
Give thanks in all circumstances; for this
is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus.
Watch for the little blessings. And be grateful.
At a recent wedding reception I attended, the pastor offered what seemed to be a standard blessing: “Thank You for this food, and bless the hands that prepared it . . . ” Her next words were far from standard: “. . . from the ground to our plates.”
How many hands? Who prepared the ground and planted the seeds? Who prepared the seeds? Tended the young plants? Who did the picking and transporting? Who touched it between the farm and the restaurant kitchen? How many hands between the kitchen door and the waiter who put the plate in front of me?
That’s one BIG blessing!
The Apostle Paul made specific note of one woman’s legacy:
2 Timothy 1:5 (NIV)
I am reminded of your sincere faith,
which first lived in your grandmother Lois
and in your mother Eunice and,
I am persuaded, now lives in you also.
Timothy was an early convert to Christianity and Paul’s cherished helper. Paul credited Grandma Lois with sincere faith that lived on in Timothy. Trace Timothy’s path through the book of Acts and Pauls letters — he was a key leader in the growth of the Christian church.
Lois’ legacy lives on in us.
Leave a trail of blessings:
Hebrews 13:16 (MSG)
Don’t take things for granted and go slack in working for the common good; share what you have with others. God takes particular pleasure in acts of worship—a different kind of “sacrifice”—that take place in kitchen and workplace and on the streets.
Don’t put it off for later. Your legacy starts now.
We can leave a long-lasting legacy, and that’s good.
But that legacy is not of our own doing.
We owe it all to our Lord Jesus Christ. 
