A BOX OF LOVE
While helping her mother prepare for Christmas, a little girl asked about the meaning of this holiday. The mother told her that Christmas was the time of the year we celebrate the birthday of Jesus, God’s Son. The little girl asked her mother why Jesus didn’t get the presents if it was his birthday. The mother explained the tradition of gift exchange as a way of showing love for one another and the matter was dropped at that. The evening before Christmas the little girl brought a gift-wrapped package from her room and placed it under the tree. “What’s in the box?” her mother asked. “A gift for Jesus. I am leaving it under the tree so he can open it tonight while I am asleep.” The mother did not want her daughter to be disappointed, so during the night she opened the package. But there was nothing in it. The next morning her daughter raced into the living room…
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