I’ve been inundated with the idea of “gift” this week.
Like how my children are a gift. Sure, I played a small role in incubating them and maybe even conception. But reality is that I didn’t knit them together in womb. I didn’t orchestrate that miraculous moment when part of me joined with part of him to become each of my daughters. That’s outside my scope of ability. Besides, thinking of them as gifts is motivation to keep my head up and keep smiling. Particularly on those days they’re behaving more like a curse than a gift.
What Mary did for Jesus, in anointing His feet, was a gift. She sacrificed, most likely denied herself of something, in order to save up for her special gift; the perfume. Its original intent was for after His death, but she chose to give her gift while He was still living. The funny part was that even though she selected a public location to attempt to give her gift in secrecy, it soon became known to everyone around her. She was found out then, yet is still talked about now, in 2012. Her story, her gift is forever etched into history.
Then there are gifts, like for Christmas, birthday, just because days. I must admit—I do enjoy receiving gifts. My preference isn’t jewels or expensive baubles. I don’t need a gift just because convention calls for you to give me something, so you get me anything. I like the gifts that the giver takes time to think about. It can be handmade or purchased. It could come from the dollar store or some top of the line big name place. The point is that the giver thought long and hard about me and when they saw that item, it was something that they connected to me. Sometimes the there’s more gift in the story than in a thing.
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