Years ago, I had a small hobby of collecting baseball cards. I collected favorite players and teams, and occasionally for investment. But as my college years began, my discretionary income ended. So did my little hobby.

My favorite cards sat in organized pages of protective plastic during my college years and for another four or five years after that.

Now that I'm in a career and once again have unallocated funds, I recently decided to get to know the baseball card hobby world again. It sure has changed over those years, and one of the new enticements of the industry are rare cards inserted into packs of cards.

As I opened a fairly expensive pack the other day, I was amazed to find one of the rarest cards of the set sitting there in my hand. It had a real autograph on it. It was one of those serendipitous moments when I wasn't sure if this was really what I thought it was. The shock eventually wore off, and the realization kicked in that I had found something I would have paid hundreds of dollars for if I had not found it in that $5.00 pack of cards.

God's blessings often come to us like that. In surprising ways, he gives us the desires of our hearts—and more.