BLESSING,
SURPRISE

A MAN took his girlfriend out for dinner and when they sat down, he laid an elaborate box on the table for her birthday. All the while they were eating dinner, she just kept thinking about this box, because it was a big box, and she wanted to know what was inside. She could hardly eat. The waiting to open the gift was killing her, but her boyfriend told her to open the gift after dinner. All she could think about was what was in the box.

Finally dinner was over. “Can I open the box now?”

“Yeah, you can open the box.”

She opened the box and pulled out a pillow. “Oh, wow, I mean, this is a nice pillow … but it’s a pillow.”

She turned the pillow over, thinking that something was taped to the backside. There was nothing.

“Well, thank you.” It was obvious she was disappointed that she got a pillow.

Her boyfriend got up, took the pillow from her, and laid the pillow on the floor. He got down on one knee, took her by the hand, and said, “Will you marry me?”

She forgot about the pillow. The one who gave her the pillow now became a lot more important.48