A lot of us get caught up in the ‘opening’ part of opening presents.
During the opening, the excitement level is at an all time high…our imagination is running completely wild and free. Anything could be in that box. So we fill it with every hope and expectation possible. Maybe this one will be the one.
And then we are finished opening the gift and we’re simply left with the gift. The actual thing.
The new gift (i.e. the new opportunity, the actual conversation, the way the event turned out in real life) alters reality not in an imaginary way but in an actual way. And we have to deal with the truth instead of what we hoped the truth might be.
The truth, the reality, the actual gift is often different than what we hoped for but it’s real. And that’s a gift.
