A few nights ago, Rick and I were out to dinner, and while waiting for our meal we grabbed a hand full of fortune cookies. Like always, there were a few fortunes that fit our lives at the moment, so I slipped them into my pocket. On our quiet ride home from dinner, both Rick and I lost in our own thoughts, I started wondering...if I could have a perfect fortune, one that I knew would come true, what would it be? My mind wandered to the night before. Somehow on a Friday night, we were able to get all 3 of our kids together to go out to dinner. As we sat in that little Thai restaurant, laughing, and talking, and joking around, I realized that for just a moment my life was perfect. I don't know how many times our family has gone out to dinner, hundreds maybe, but I took those moments for granted. My kids are growing up and leaving home, and those precious precious moments, when it's just the 5 of us, don't happen nearly enough. So my perfect fortune? The promise of many more nights just like that one.
"We may lack riches,
but the greatest fortune
is what lies in our hearts."
-Dean Koontz
What is your perfect fortune?
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