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Sharing from "Sharing the Journey: Christ in the Gifts"

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I wanted to share a blog post called "Christ in the Gifts"   (hmmm, sounds awfully close to a blog name, doesn't it)  over at Sharing the Journey . Guest writer, Jodi, describes her family's gift-giving traditions and how they coincide with the three wise men in the Christmas story. I liked that idea a lot. Go check it out here to read more about it. Source: google.com via Ann on Pinteres I was thinking about gift-giving in our house. When our kids, then our grandkids, were younger, gift-giving was more about things (toys, candy, etc). There’s just something about the excitement of watching a youngster wake up Christmas morning and tear open presents that they have been waiting weeks to open. But our youngest is 19 and the grand kids are getting older and often we don’t get a chance to see them on Christmas. So it seems that gift-giving has been changing slowly over the years. Money is a little tighter and the idea of buying more stuff we really don’t need ha