The little girl’s father had just given her a silver dollar to put into her bank. She excitedly ran off to her room to “deposit” the coin.
However, in a few minutes she returned and handed the silver coin back to her father.

“Daddy,” she said sadly, “here’s your dollar back. I can’t get it into my bank.”

“Why not?” her concerned father asked.

“It’s too full,” she said, obviously disappointed.

Her father accompanied her back to her room and, sure enough, her bank was too full to accept even one more coin. It was filled with pennies!

It is so easy to fill our lives with “Pennies” and leave out the “first” things and big things of life.