It's My Birthday
My 11 year old son presented me with a train this morning. It's made entirely of liquorice.
I am very partial to liquorice, in fact, when we get to heaven, liquorice will be the main course of the marriage supper. At least it should be.
This was the best gift I had. It far outstripped the other stuff, even though the other presents were all very nice. But the thought that went into it and the creativity and time (and the liquorice) topped everything.
When we got married, my wife and I had a load of wedding gifts from family and friends. Money, bikes, kitchen and household things. But the best gift back then was a shoe box with some nice coffee, some liquorice and a couple of other small nick-nacks and a letter. Again, it was the thought and love in the box and the letter that hit home.
It's nearly christmas and people are going mad buying up the entire retail stock of the city centre, getting things that people don't need or even want and finding themselves stressed and in debt.
A lot of Christians will say that the greatest gift ever was the the gift God gave the world of His only son. Others will say it's the sacrifice Jesus made on the cross.
I'd say the greatest gift is the challenge given by Jesus to lay down our life, to love until it hurts, to forget ourselves to death and follow Him where-ever. That's the one that says we can have an eterity with God as our friend. We could have it without the birth, death and resurection of Jesus but it' the invitation to follow Him that is the best. It's that gift that leads to everlasting life.
I am very partial to liquorice, in fact, when we get to heaven, liquorice will be the main course of the marriage supper. At least it should be.
This was the best gift I had. It far outstripped the other stuff, even though the other presents were all very nice. But the thought that went into it and the creativity and time (and the liquorice) topped everything.
When we got married, my wife and I had a load of wedding gifts from family and friends. Money, bikes, kitchen and household things. But the best gift back then was a shoe box with some nice coffee, some liquorice and a couple of other small nick-nacks and a letter. Again, it was the thought and love in the box and the letter that hit home.
It's nearly christmas and people are going mad buying up the entire retail stock of the city centre, getting things that people don't need or even want and finding themselves stressed and in debt.
A lot of Christians will say that the greatest gift ever was the the gift God gave the world of His only son. Others will say it's the sacrifice Jesus made on the cross.
I'd say the greatest gift is the challenge given by Jesus to lay down our life, to love until it hurts, to forget ourselves to death and follow Him where-ever. That's the one that says we can have an eterity with God as our friend. We could have it without the birth, death and resurection of Jesus but it' the invitation to follow Him that is the best. It's that gift that leads to everlasting life.
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