Message summary: Today we consider God's ubiquitous blessings, the greatest being "the riches of God’s grace lavished on us”.

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'Because of your father’s God, who helps you, because of the Almighty, who blesses you with blessings of the skies above, blessings of the deep springs below, blessings of the breast and womb. Your father’s blessings are greater than the blessings of the ancient mountains, than the bounty of the age-old hills" (Genesis 49:25,26). “Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in the heavenly realms with every spiritual blessing in Christ. For He chose us in Him before the creation of the world to be holy and blameless in His sight. In love He predestined us for adoption to sonship through Jesus Christ, in accordance with His pleasure and will—to the praise of His glorious grace, which He has freely given us in the One He loves. In Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins, in accordance with the riches of God’s grace that He lavished on us” (Ephesians 1:3-8).

We were visiting the Audrey's distribution center this Tuesday and I saw an item so common I don't recall ever stopping to consider it before.

We see them in just about every company we visit; we see products for sale loaded on them at Costco; we see them stacked in huge piles at warehouses. We are referring to the ubiquitous pallet (ubiquitous means "present, appearing, or found everywhere").

There are roughly 5 billion pallets in use worldwide, an estimated 2 billion in the U.S. alone. In 2020, the global pallet market size was valued at 78 billion U.S. dollars and is expected to reach over 110 billion U.S. dollars by 2027. One article called them "The Single Most Important Object in the Global Economy".

I see them all the time yet I never pay attention to pallets. They're everywhere but you rarely notice them unless you're looking! This morning we looked and saw many stacks as we passed a Lowes store and then followed a truck with roofing loaded on pallets. We saw the pumpkins stacked on them at the Amish farm in our lead photo. Brooksyne once fell over a rough edged pallet in one of our factories as her bell bottom pant leg caught the corner of a pallet and she was down before she knew it. (Thankfully no injuries, just a few hours of pain and a few minutes of embarrassment!)

After seeing the stack at Audrey's Tuesday morning I commented on how ubiquitous they are to Roseanna, an employee, and then asked her if she could suggest a theme. After a brief pause she replied, "They're like God's blessings". What a good analogy!

But sadly, like pallets, we may also fail to see God's ubiquitous blessings and just take them for granted.