Cozy Devotional No. 5: “Where the Treasure Is”
Scripture: Matthew 6:21 — “For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.”
Kit hadn’t planned to stay long at the Maplewood Rec Center. Just a drop-off — some freshly baked Still Small Berry muffins for the front desk crew and a small tray for the kids' after-school art program. But as she stepped into the multipurpose room, she froze.
Streamers. Balloons. A hand-lettered sign: Thank You, Kit Carlyle!
She blinked, unsure. “What is…?”
Out from behind a folding table popped Tori Rae, grinning wide. “Surprise! We wanted to say thank you. For the muffins. The encouragement. The way you always leave joy behind like it's glitter in your wake.”
Kit’s eyes brimmed. “I didn’t know anyone noticed.”
“We noticed,” said Ellie Grant, peeking in with her camera slung around her neck. “You bloom in quiet corners.”
Martin had come, too — he stepped forward with a small card and a wrapped box. “A little something. Open it later.”
Kit’s fingers trembled slightly as she took the card, her heart fuller than any bakery box she’d ever carried.
Later that night, Kit opened the gift at her kitchen table. It was a little locket — the old-fashioned kind — with a mustard seed nestled inside one side and the inscription Where your treasure is… on the other.
She touched it reverently.
Her mom used to say that treasure wasn’t always gold or gemstones. Sometimes it was the sound of a door creaking open to welcome someone in need. A handwritten note. A muffin baked with a whispered prayer.
And here, in this quiet moment after a day of small kindnesses returned, Kit understood again:
Treasure is whatever you give away with love — and find, unexpectedly, waiting for you in return.
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