God sometimes talks to me at Target.

It was after work and I had to run to Target for a few items that I needed for dinner that night. I'm standing in the 10 items or less express lane, the one by the baseball cards and weird stretchy bracelets and other items that kids "need".

Well, there are no magazine headlines to read in this checkout lane, so I start looking at the items and thought...my daughter would really like that...and that's when it happened. God talked to me. Not in an audible, I AM HERE VOICE, but in my heart.

A scripture I heard many times came to mind, Matthew 7:11, "If you, then, though you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good gifts to those who ask him!"

I was reminded right there in the 10 items or less lane, GOD WANTS TO GIVE ME GOOD GIFTS! Sometimes I get bogged down by life, the errands, the cleaning, the trying and forget.

Just like I wanted to surprise my daughter with a gift God wants to surprise me. I checked out and on the way home pondered the thought that God wants to give me gifts, way more than I want to give things to my chidlren. HOLY COW BATMAN! That's ALOT!

I chose not to buy my daughter the Angry Bird stretchy thing, and at times, God also chooses not to give me things. He has His reasons, just like I had mine. But what I was reminded of is His heart is towards me, he thinks about me, he loves me, he wants to give me good gifts.

My hope and prayer is the next time you are thinking about how much your son or daughter would like this or that, multiply it a hundred times and know that you are just scratching the surface of God's love for you His daughter.