gifts
Advent Calendar – December 23
As we will be opening presents in the next couple of days let’s now focus on the gifts the wise men brought. For me they were wise to the end […]
Advent Calendar – December 22
At Christmas we traditionally give gifts to those we love. The gift giving tradition is said to date back to the three wisemen who visited the Baby Jesus and bought […]
Advent Calendar – December 17
Yesterday I spent some time wrapping presents. What are we saying when we give a gift? I think gifts convey several messages. Gifts can be given for the purpose of […]
Advent Calendar – December 14
This is a lovely Christmas story: On the night before Christmas, a young father was annoyed and told his 3 year old daughter off for having wasted expensive gold tasseled […]
Advent Calendar – December 13
A good friend of mine once gave me a lovely homemade Advent calendar. In one of the windows was this beautiful poem: “If I decorate my house perfectly with plaid bows, strands […]
Advent Calendar – December 6
A newspaper reporter, Oren Arnold, once made the following gift suggestions for Christmas: To your enemy, forgiveness To an opponent, tolerance To a friend, your heart To a customer, service […]
