The Perfect Christmas Gift
Each year as the Christmas season nears, the advertisements get hot and heavy for anything and everything that a person can shop for and purchase as a gift for Christmas. Turn on the TV and you see ads that basically say you don’t love your girl if you don’t buy her diamonds. Flip through a magazine and it’s loaded with more advertisements than content. Sign online and no doubt you will find tons of ads that scream BUY, BUY, BUY.
We all like to get gifts, that’s a given thing. But have we become so material oriented that we’ve forgotten about the greatest gift of all? The gift of love, of giving of oneself, far outweighs any amount of money that could be spent and any material things money could buy. The old saying that money can’t buy love hasn’t changed.
Many folks in today’s world are in such a hurry. We have instant oatmeal, instant coffee, microwaves, ready made meals, etc. We are in such a hurry to get where we are going that we fail to stop and see the beauty of where we are right now. It’s go, go, go, and don’t slow down while going. While we are in such a hurry, we forget to take time and enjoy life. We spend sometimes outrageous sums of money buying things for the people we love, yet deny them the greatest gift of all….. ourselves.
There is one perfect holiday gift. It’s a gift that can be shared and used throughout the entire year. It never gets overused. It never runs out of battery power. It never needs replaced. It’s the one thing you can never have too much of. That perfect gift is you.
Instead of spending a load of money for Christmas and going deeper into debt, wrap up something new and different this year. Wrap up a nice note that gives the gift of your time with those you love and that love you. Rather than trying to buy loads of stuff for the friends, kids, spouse, and loved ones, give the best gift there is, the gift of your time.
The most memorable Christmas gifts won’t be the ones that you spent hundreds of dollars on. It’ll be the gift where you gave of yourself, when you spent time with the people that love you and that you love.
Christmas is a multi-million dollar season, for the businesses who sell Christmas. Maybe it’s time to show he businesses what Christmas is really all about. Over the years, they’ve forgotten too. Christmas isn’t about money and stuff. It’s the day we celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ, our Lord and Savior. It’s all about love. Instead of spending money on stuff, let’s spend ourselves on our loved ones.
