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Today, appropriately, for Food and Family on Fridays, I am headed across snow-plowed highways to visit family in Iowa. We will spend the weekend there on farm land and gather on Sunday to worship with a small, but faithful group of saints that gather at the Tent Chapel Church of Christ each week.
My travels have taken me many places and there are many more stories to share on Story-time Saturdays. However, one of the things I have learned and affirmed with each passing year is that there is nothing like time with family - family you're related to or family in Christ.
I have visited many beautiful locations: mountains, meadows, streams, oceans, beaches, desert, jungle, breathtaking architecture made my man and made by God. Nothing compares to the treasured memories of time shared with family, both kinds.
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What is the best Christmas gift you have ever received?
One of mine was a Black & Decker tool kit shortly before moving to Venezuela. Another was a pair of Mickey Mouse and LSU flannel pajama pants - purple and gold, of course, with a white satin ribbon at the waist. Both gifts were totally unexpected and so perfectly fit my needs and desires that I can clearly remember the moment I received them and still use them with a smile each time.
The value of these gifts was not in their monetary worth, but rather in the time the giver took to know what I might need or what I might want, even better than I did at the time. The best gift we have ever been given is the offering of salvation. God knew what we needed or wanted better than we did and before we did. In anticipation of our greatest need, He sent His Son: the perfect sacrifice for our sins.
No matter what gifts you received this year or in years past, let us be grateful for the greatest gift of all!