The Joy of Gifting at Christmas Time*

The joy of making someone happy through a gift is indescribable. It’s about Christmas time, the perfect time to celebrate the love of God and family and to create memories that will last forever. The amazing thing is that not only are we able to receive this gift, but we are able to share it with others on Christmas and every other day of the year.

Christmas is the spirit of giving without a thought of getting. It is happiness because we see joy in people. It is forgetting self and finding time for others. It moves us to think of others rather than of ourselves. It directs our thoughts to giving.

But while there is joy in receiving a gift, there is also joy in giving one. One of my most memorable gifts that I have given is offering a helping hand and bringing happy smiles through charity, and coincidently it was Christmas time and Christmas is, after all, all about giving or receiving.

Buy for your friends who appreciate this is the season of faith can be difficult. While they might already have their christian christmas shirts, but what about christian clothing to show their religion the rest of the year? How about a christian hoodie? Something that they can wear year around to attend church, not just at Christmas.

Someone quoted, “We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give and as we work to create light for others, we naturally light our own way.” Nothing in the world can be more joyous than adding 86,400 seconds to someone’s life. This is what my last Christmas day felt like, and this is how it should be felt.