Hearing Aids and Hidden Blessings!

Yesterday I got a package in the mail. It was Lydia's hearing aids. About ten days ago, they broke and I had to send them away to get fixed. But when I opened up the package, there was way more than I had sent away. I had sent away a little tub with the hearing aids inside. Now I had back three boxes. One box had a new headband that the aids click on to. The other two boxes had the two hearing aids. They were both in a special little case. I thought they were put in the case to keep them safe in the mail. But my husband thinks they are brand new hearing aids. I'm still not sure which, Anyway, there was a pile of boxes on our desk, so I decided to tidy it up and throw away the boxes. But for some reason I looked in the boxes again, under where the hearing aid cases had sat. I was surprised to find a small thin box underneath. I opened it up and it was little kit of extra things for the aid. A packet of batteries, a little tool to lock the aid so the batteries don't fall out, stickers to decorate the aid, and a few other things.
 There was a kit in both of the hearing aid boxes. I shuddered to think I had nearly thrown it all away! 
I didn't expect anything extra, so I nearly didn't find it. I didn't see it at first, because I didn't know it was there.


In life, we usually find what we're looking for. We can often miss the things we're not looking for. If we look for faults in people, we easily find them. If we look for faults in our husband, we're always going to find them. But there are hidden blessings, we often miss because we're not looking for them. If we make an effort to look for the good, we will find things we missed before.
It's like a garden. If you look for the weeds, you'll find them. Weeds keep coming up. But if you're focused on the weeds, you'll never enjoy the beauty of the flowers. Instead we should focus on the flowers and work on the weeds. 
We need to look a little deeper and ask God to open our eyes for the blessings we're missing. And then focus on the blessings and pray about the problems!