December 25, 2003

• Christmas is a time for gift-giving.  Although I didn’t get many gifts this year, what I did get was a lot of love from a lot of people.  That’s what the gifts represent anyways right?  They symbolize love. 

  
  

  Giving gifts.  That’s an even better feeling.  Not necessarily because you gave something, but because you get something back in return.  It’s great to see the happiness on the recipient’s face, and those feelings that you have done something positive in someone’s life is priceless.

  
  

  It reminds me of a certain tradition I took part in a few years ago.  I bought a cross, with the intent of giving it away to the first person that admired it, and with the stipulation that they would give it to the first person that admired it on them.  I wore it on a trip with my 4 closest friends.  Over the course of the weekend trip, none of them said a word.  I returned home and while at the supermarket, someone said how beautiful it was.  I didn’t want to give it to her, because I had meant for it to be given to one of my friends.  I told her to give it to the first person that admired it and to give them the same instructions.

  
  

  Now I don’t know where that cross is, but I hope that as a symbol and as a gift, it has touched many lives. 

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