The moment has come when UPS may not quite make it to your
door before Christmas Day, and so I want to use today’s calendar post to remind
you of something that we all already know - sometimes the best gift at
Christmas is a donation to a worthy organization in the name of a friend or
loved one.
A few Christmases ago, we started doing this as a family,
remembering that most adults in our lives have everything they could ever need;
and that the stress of shopping and wrapping, of returning and even sometimes
re-gifting, makes for a not too merry Christmas.
So if you are still looking for that perfect gift five days
before Christmas, why not consider an alternative gift through an organization
like Heifer International?
In my congregation we have a special place in our heart for
Heifer, having visited the educational ranch in Arkansas together, funded two Gift
Arks as a church, and even held a Heifer International Vacation Bible School
one summer.
One of the most powerful parts of the Heifer International
philosophy is the concept of Passing on the Gift - that every family who has received
a live animal gift from Heifer International is expected to continue to grow
that gift and to give its offspring to another family within their community.
The video below is a short clip of a Passing on the Gift ceremony in Peru.
I wish this is what gift giving looked like at my house
on Christmas morning!
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