Thrilled with Butter Beans

Have you ever thought you struck it rich when you found a....butter bean in your soup bowl?  Tonight, both our Ethiopian girls were thrilled with their multi-bean soup.  They were eating away, until suddenly they stopped and gave giggles of excitement.  I looked over at each of them to see their eyes as wide as they could open and then staring at it saying "Daddieee, Daddieee."  They goggled it down, so I dug through the soup bowl found a few more and snuck them into the bowl each time they were looking away. The same response every time they looked back.

This makes me realize just how much we take for granted and how difficult it is for us to get excited in America.  It takes something really big.  But what about the little things, the clean water, the fresh fruit, the fact that we never have to go hungry, at least not most of us.  Warm houses, Clothes without holes, good healthcare.  All of these and so many more should cause of equal amounts of glee and give us plenty of reasons to thank God for his generous provisions.