Christmas has become a holiday of gift giving and receiving. Billions of people, every year, spend billions of dollars on gifts for others. What can be more gracious and precious than that? Well, there are many who say that the true gift of Christmas isn’t something that can be bought in stores, ordered from an infomercial, purchased on eBay, or put in a card. The true gift of Christmas is the actual act of giving out of love.

The Thin Line

Every year people scramble to find the perfect Christmas gift for everyone they know. They rampage through Christmas sales, and stampede through buy-one-get-one-free, they scream and scratch at anyone who has grabbed the last of something hard to get, they holler and yell and bite and kick…all for that one special Christmas gift. Despite how ‘wonderful’ the gift buying experience is there is more to it than