Gifts

What are some of the best gifts you have ever had?

What are some of the worst?

Gifts are a strange thing, and sometimes so hard to buy for people you really don't know. It usually starts off with smelly's (although I don't mind that especially if it is vanilla influenced and from the Body Shop hint hint) then it's the legendary socks... Oh yes the brown Poo coloured socks with Santa on or cats (sorry if I've offended Santa and cat lovers!) but as you begin to get to know the person, gifts seem to get easier, for a while that its. I mean after you've given them that CD or DVD, or that handbag, it starts to get more expensive. My best friend brought her husband a pen for Christmas... it was £250! For a pen!! Apparently its really nice (!) she got it engraved and everything. My goodness if that's what love does to ya, I better start saving!

However, for my friend, this gift was special and important and something that he really appreciated even though he was not expecting it.

I guess God is like that sometimes

He gives us stuff when we least expect it but are we always grateful? I bet most of the time we don't even recognise that we have been given a gift! The amazing thing about Christianity is the gift of Grace. This is absolutely free and the only thing that God asks for in return is that we love him.

Whoa! That sounds like a contradiction to me!

Well its not. God gives us grace, and we love. He doesn't say, if you don't love me you wont get any grace! Its more like here's Grace.You choose whether you accept it and love Him.'

Grace, for all those who are not Christians reading this is, God accepting us no matter what we have done. He does not hold anything against us. We don't need to keep doing penace, or praying 5 times a day, or keep getting reincarnated until we get things right. Things are already right for us. all we need to do is accept that.

The thing that I find with gifts is that your so happy and gratefull that you spend all your time thinking of ways to repay your thankfulness. sometimes these efforts are empty and end up being a compitition to see who can out do each other. If that starts then you've missed the point.

Its not a compitition! do it out of Love!

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current mood: thoughtful.