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Long ago, there ruled in Persia a wise and good king. He loved his people andwanted wanted to know what it was like to live a peasants life.
He wanted to know what kind of burdens lay upon their lives.
So often he would dress in the clothes of a working man or a beggar, and visit in the homes of the poor.
No one whom he visited knew that he was their ruler. One time he visited a very poor man who lived in a dark and dismal cellar. He ate the same scant course food the poor man ate.
He spoke kind and cheerful, words to him.
Then he left.
Later he visited the poor man again and disclosed his identity by saying, "I am your king!"
The king was sure the man would surely ask for some gift or favor, but he didn't. Instead he said, "You left your palace and your glory to visit me in this dark, dreary place. You ate the course food I ate. You brought gladness to my heart!
To others you have given your rich gifts. To me you have given yourself!"
Some special Christmas gifts to give.
1. The gift of your forgiving heart. Does someone carry the burden of knowing you have not forgiven and even worse have vowed you never will? Lighten their load and in the process you will lighten your own.
(material gifts you give will rust away or fade away or find someplace in a closet or lonely attic place...but the gift of forgiveness has eternity in it.)
2. Give the gift on Christmas morn of being a Christian Christmas person...the kind who does not yell at the children for being too loud...or mope because you did not get the present you had wanted...rather, the kind of person who overcomes the room with your smile and tenderness in your voice and maybe with the tone that was the tone of the Wisemen as they looked down at the Christ child and spoke their prayers.
3. Give the gift of apology if you have done a wrong.
4. In our time of expensive technological toys teach your children and your grandchildren to appreciate the joys of watching green and growing things rise up from the earth. My father grew up on a farm. I had a victory garden in World War II. It is a lesson it is never too late to learn and far to important to forget.
Love of nature is a gift beyond compare.
There is a rather poignant Christmas story about a little girl who watched her mother & dad getting ready for Christmas.
To her, it seemed that dad was preoccupied with burdens & bundles, & mom was concerned about parties & presents, & they just had no time for her.
She felt that she was being shoved aside. In fact, it seemed to her that she was always being told, "Would you please get out of the way?"
So one night in December she knelt beside her bed & prayed this prayer, "Our Father who art in heaven, please forgive us our Christmases as we forgive those who Christmas against us."
She felt that she was being shoved aside. In fact, it seemed to her that she was always being told, "Would you please get out of the way?"
So one night in December she knelt beside her bed & prayed this prayer, "Our Father who art in heaven, please forgive us our Christmases as we forgive those who Christmas against us."
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