I am lousy with picking out gifts for other people; but somehow I'm blessed with friends who're talented in picking fun, practical, pretty, & thoughtful gifts for me! A number of these people buy me gifts year after year not because I buy them gifts in return. (Not that I take them for granted, but either I couldn't find enough time to shop or don't have the brain to decide what they like.)
This is not fair, I think. Perhaps ... the idea of gift is not about fairness. God's gifts to us are all free - life, air, sunshine, Jesus. We just need to want and accept them. Come to think about it - "gift exchange" might be an oxymoron.
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