Lucky or Blessed?

There you are. Look how cute and crazy you were. This is in the front of the house you grew up in with Aunt Nancy & Uncle Jim in Cypress, California. You are about 4 years old here. Aunt Nancy (who you soon start calling Ma), made you wear a dress every Sunday to church.
Right now I am at my computer. I am playing poker and I am remembering all the times you played cards with Ma. She taught you to play a game called Nertz and you were so good at it. It was a game of quick thinking and even faster hands. All the ladies from the neighborhood would get together and sit around the table and play Nertz. Kids were not invited to play. But, you would sit there and watch. You would even practice by yourself for hours by playing solitaire. Eventually, Ma saw how good you had become. She was already the best. But, she knew that if you two played together, there would be no stopping the Williams gals from taking down every opponent who dared to sit at our table and sip our iced tea.
It was fun. It made you feel grown up. It was also one of the few things you "knew" that mom was proud of you about.
Well little Crystal, guess what? You are still a mean card player. You play a mean game of poker. And you have some kind of weird "lucky" thing about you. You just win random things. I think it is a blessing from God. I don't really believe in luck. I feel that God finds favor in you. I feel that He always has, starting with day he put your precious life in the hands of Jim and Nancy Williams.
Let not mercy and truth forsake thee: bind them about thy neck; write them upon the table of thine heart: So shalt thou find favour and good understanding in the sight of God and man."(Proverbs 3:3-4)