Christmas is a time of gifts. It has always been so. Today though, it is all too often nothing more. As such, it often leaves us empty: Yearning, seeking to hold on to the day which is, like all days, fleeting — a mere twenty-four hours. This too will always be thus, so long as our Christmas gifts are only temporal ones.
Gifts were part of the first Christmas. The shepherds came with praise and fabulous tales of what angels had told them. That the angel Gabriel had already foretold such things to Mary made her ready to accept these.
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