What is the best gift you ever gave? When did a gift at Christmas make a difference beyond what you expected?
When I hear people talking about this kind of thing it rarely ends up having to do with something material. References are made to those times at Christmas when the family really couldn't afford much gift giving and the gift that made a difference was something that was the result of someone's heroic effort.
Maybe it was the doll house your father made or the train set or the sand box that was the most memorable gift.
Maybe it was the Christmas your brother was able to get away from his job or the military unite and surprised the family by showing up on Christmas Eve that was the Christmas everyone can remember.
Maybe it was the year your father or mother stopped drinking and that was the last drink they ever had as they turned their lives around that was the Christmas that holds the most meaning for you as you think about it today.
It might have been the Christmas your grandmother was ill and expected to die and she rallied for Christmas and your greatest Christmas present was she was able to be with the family on Christmas Eve.
Maybe it was the last Christmas you were all together as a family and you recall how you passed the light down the row on Christmas Eve and you will never forget how important that was. You didn't realize it at the time but, looking back, it was the best Christmas ever.
What Christmas memories do you have?
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I look forward to hearing for you.
Charles Schuster
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