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Christmas Gift
The Most Precious Christmas Gift
Christmas has become a holiday of gift giving and receiving.
Billions of people, every year, spend billions of dollars on gifts
for others. What can be more gracious and precious than that? Well,
there are many who say that the true gift of Christmas isn’t
something that can be bought in stores, ordered from an infomercial,
purchased on eBay, or put in a card. The true gift of Christmas is
the actual act of giving out of love.
The Thin Line
Every year people scramble to find the perfect Christmas gift for
everyone they know. They rampage through Christmas sales, and
stampede through buy-one-get-one-free, they scream and scratch at
anyone who has grabbed the last of something hard to get, they
holler and yell and bite and kick…all for that one special Christmas
gift. Despite how ‘wonderful’ the gift buying experience is there is
more to it than just getting something for everyone.
The true Christmas gift is given out of love not guilt. There are
millions of people who give Christmas gifts simply because they are
expected to. You have to get gifts for Uncle Bill, Aunt Mary, Cousin
Eddie, and your distance cousin Brendan because they all gave gifts
to you last year. Does anyone give gifts out of love anymore? That
is hard to say. Sure, there are the truly humble, loving people out
there that give because they can, and because they truly see a need.
But how many of them give, not because they feel compelled, but
because they love someone. I know that it is hard to see a
distinction, but there is one, and I will endeavor to explain it to
you.
Compelled?
To compel someone is to incite some kind of emotional response that
another will feel obligated to fulfill. This means that if you give
a gift to someone, they will feel compelled to give one back. If you
hurt someone’s feelings, you feel compelled to right the wrong.
These are both basically selfish reasons. But if you love someone,
you will want to express that love by giving them something even if
there really isn’t a reason. Love is a powerful emotion with
powerful effects. Loving someone enough to buy them a Christmas
gift, especially when one isn’t required, expected, or guilt
induced, is a beautiful thing.
Before you head out on Black Friday to haggle among the other
gaggles of credit card wielding hordes, you should probably take
some time to discover the true motives behind your trek into
dangerous shopping ground. Is it love or guilt that compels you?
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