Master Key Experience Week 5 – Receiving

Today I was shopping with my son.  He was looking for perfume to buy for a friend’s birthday.  The fragrance section is right next to the cased handbags.  He caught me looking at one in particular and asked, “Would you like it for Christmas?”.  All I could come back with is, “It’s nice.”

We walked around the store a bit and he kept pressing, “You like it right?  Seriously, you haven’t gotten a new purse since forever.  Let me get it for you.”

I continued to do everything I could to stall with, “It’s kind of expensive.  I’m good and we’ve still got a couple months ’til Christmas.  Why don’t you just hold off for a while and if you don’t find anything else, then you decide if you want to buy it.”

I believe I saw an eye roll, followed by, “You know how hard you are to buy for.  You seriously need to learn to be able to receive.  You’ve given me so much already and you continue to give me more all the time.  You support me with school and work and all the ideas I come up with.  Just let me give something back to you.”

And it hit me like a ton of bricks.  He’s right.  I give – that’s what I do.  Receiving – it’s always been a challenge.

Time for a change.  I’ve got to do both – give and receive.

A deep breath followed by “You’re right.  I need to work on that.”

He smiled and said, “Yeah, you do.  Now let’s go get that purse.”