The View from the West Mesa

Have you received a gift that was particularly special? Maybe it was something you had been wanting for a long time, or perhaps something you had been needing and for which you had been hoping, or maybe even something you did not expect but once you had it, it seemed the perfect gift. These sorts of gifts go beyond themselves and impact more areas of your life than what might seem at first blush their purpose. Perhaps it was someone offering you a job out of the blue that set you back on your feet. Maybe it was someone who came along beside you during one of your darkest moments and lifted you out of that space, empowering you to move forward. Or it could have been a note, written on a small card that arrived in the mail telling you that you hadn't been forgotten in the morass of life. None of those appear to the greater world as anything special. None will fuel an economy, end a war, or cure a disease. But to you they might have meant more than the world itself. B