Gift-giving at family gatherings or any other occasion is enjoyable when you know your boundaries and possess a vibrant love for those who will be surprised by your choices. It’s important to believe family and friends appreciate your effort to bring joy and happiness into their lives with a special gift.
However, if too much emphasis is placed on gifts rather than relationships, disappointment is sure to follow. Depending on gifts to compensate for lack of closeness or for past troubles and conflict is a slippery slope to try and navigate.
Believing gifts will make people happy and love you is attributing enormous power to gifts. God’s plan and desire is that those to whom he has given his best gift might remain joyful and at peace with one another. Keeping God’s love and what he has given in constant focus, contributes to your family gatherings remaining joyful and peaceful.
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Love is more important
than anything else. It is what ties everything completely together.
~Colossians 3:14 Contemporary
English Version
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