How often we feel we are not getting our fair share.   We begin to think that being good is not getting us where or what we think it should.  We look around us and everybody else seems to be doing better than we are in spite of our qualifications.  Remember when we were children how we all wanted that one leftover piece of cake?  It became highly valuable in our eyes because it was the last piece.   Each child thought he or she deserved it and after a spirited bid by all of us my mother would get the knife and under our watchful eyes slice that one last piece to accomodate all of us and make the portions as even as possible.  But it still seemed as if the bigger piece always went to one of the others. “It’s not fair” we would loudly cry. We could get quite adamant about it, turning vicious and jealous, instead of enjoying what was given to us.  We felt we were being cheated.  In exasperation my mother would wisely say, “but you have more frosting on yours”.  This would shut us up immediately and leave the child holding the so-called larger piece thoughtful.   She made us feel that somehow ours was better in some respect we couldn’t recognize at first in our quest for the biggest piece.   This is how we must look at life.  It isn’t about the biggest piece; it is about the quality of that piece.  For the Christian that “smaller piece” may be the key to the precious storehouse of treasure in our Father’s Kingdom.