Sunday, May 21, 2023

Gift-Giving

"Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning."  James 1:17

Have you ever received a gift you had no use for?
Maybe a gift you didn't like so much?
Perhaps you were given a green scarf when your favorite color is blue, and then you realize that you don't even wear scarves at all!
Maybe, your gift wasn't even wrapped in colorful paper, in a decorated gift bag, no ribbons, no bows but just handed to you, late, in passing as an after-thought?

Recently I was given a beautiful birthday bag filled with three of my favorite things.
A notebook, a new coffee mug and a gift card-
but it wasn't the perfect gifts that warmed my heart...
it was the person behind the gifts.
She knew me.
She knows what I like, what I don't like, and what I need.

Gift-Giving is an Art-of-the-Heart, and my friend has this gift.
Do you?
If not, you can.  It takes three simple things:
    1-Time
    2-Interest
    3-Love

Jesus is the perfect example of Gift-Giving.  
    He gives us His Time...
        He gives us His interest...
            He gives us His Love...
                He gives Himself...
                    But that's just me!

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