While helping her mother prepare for Christmas, a little girl asked about the meaning of this holiday. The mother told her that Christmas was the time of the year we celebrate the birthday of Jesus, God's Son. The little girl asked her mother why Jesus didn't get the presents if it was his birthday. The mother explained the tradition of gift exchange as a way of showing love for one another and the matter was dropped at that.
On the evening before Christmas the little girl brought a gift-wrapped package from her room and placed it under the tree. "What's in the box?" her mother asked.
"A gift for Jesus. I am leaving it under the tree so he can open it tonight while I am asleep."
The mother did not want her daughter to be disappointed, so during the night she opened the package. But there was nothing in it. The next morning her daughter raced into the living room to see if her package had been opened. It had! She shouted to her mother, "Jesus opened his present last night!"
The mystified mother walked over to her daughter and asked what she had given Jesus.
The little girl explained, "I figure that Jesus has about everything he needs, and I can't give him much cuz I'm just a little girl. But there is one thing I can give him. So I decided to give him a BOX OF LOVE."
- submitted by Fred Lowery, The Pastor's Story File (December 1993)
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