Jenny was a bright-eyed, pretty five-year-old girl. One day when she and her mother were checking out at the grocery store, Jenny saw a plastic pearl necklace priced at N3000How she wanted that necklace, and when she asked her mother if she would buy it for her, her mother said, “Well, it is a pretty necklace, but it costs an awful lot of money. I’ll tell youwhat. I’ll buy you the necklace, and when we get home we can make up a list of chore that you can do to pay for the necklace.How Jenny loved those pearls. She wore them everywhere-to kindergarten, bed and when she went out with her mother to run errands. Theonly time she didn’t wear them was in the shower;Now Jenny had a very loving daddy. When Jenny went to bed, he would get up from his favorite chair every night and read Jenny her favorite story. One night when he finished the story, he said, “Jenny, do you love me?”“Oh yes, Daddy, you know I love you,” the little girl said.“Well, then, give me your pearls.”“Oh! Daddy, not my pearls!” Jenny said.“But you can have Rosie, my favorite doll. Remember her? You gave her to me last year for my birthday. And you can have her tea party outfit, too. Okay?”“Oh no, darling, that’s okay.” Her father brushed her cheek with a kiss. “Good night, little one.” A week later, her father once again asked Jenny after her story, “Do you love me?”“Oh yes, Daddy, you know I love you.”“Well, then, give me your pearls.”Oh, Daddy, not my pearls! But you can have Ribbons, my toy horse. Do you remember her?p She’s my favorite. Her hair is so soft, and you can play with it and braid it and everything. You can have Ribbons if you want her, Daddy,” the little girl said to her father.“No, that’s okay,” her father said and brushed her cheek again with a kiss. “God bless you, little one.Sweet dreams.”Severaldays later, when Jenny’s fathercame in to read her a story, Jenny was sitting on her bed and her lip was trembling. “Here, Daddy,” she said, andheld out her hand.She opened it and her beloved pearl necklace was inside. She let it slip into her father’s hand. With one hand her father held the plastic pearls and with the other he pulled out of his pocket a blue velvet box. Inside of the box were real, genuine, beautiful pearls.He had them all along. He was waiting for Jenny to give up the cheap stuff so he could give her the real thing.The same with our Heavenly Father, Heis waiting for us to give up the cheap/fake things in our lives. Are you holding on to harmful relationships, habits, activities… which you have come so attached to that it seems impossible to let go? Sometimes it is so hard to see what is in the other hand but do believe one thing, God willnever take away something without giving us something better.I Pray my heavenly father gives you all your heart's desires according to His riches in Glory...