The cool thing about shopping for gifts brings out a character that we tend to put on the backshelf during the rest of the year. GIVING.
I must be honest and say that christmas shopping can be stressful, due to crowds of people, or the fact that you just don't know what to get "so-and-so" for chirstmas.... maybe just a gift card.
But the effort to sit and think of others and what they like, and what they ARE like, brings the side effects of compassion and putting others first. And while this is still focusing on gift giving, there is a particular story that I love during this time of year called "The Gift of the Magi"
Its a story of giving a gift that sacrifices one's own best to give to the other.
In a sense, GOD did that for us. Continue to dwell on others, and to think about the FATHER's love for us and what HE gave.
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