A kindly 90-year-old grandmother found buying presents for family and friends a bit much last Christmas. So she wrote out checks for all of them to put in their Christmas cards.
In each card she carefully wrote, "Buy your own present" and then sent them off.
After the Christmas festivities were over, she found the checks under a pile of papers on her desk!
Everyone on her gift list had received a beautiful Christmas card from her with "Buy your own present" written inside-- without the check!
'Christmas is most truly Christmas when we celebrate it by giving the light of love to those who need it most."
- Ruth Carter Stapleton
"Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love."
- Hamilton Wright Mabi
Here are some signs seen around Christmas time.
Toy Store: "Ho, ho, ho spoken here."
Outside a church: "The original Christmas Club."
At a department store: "Big pre-Christmas sale. Come in and mangle with the crowd."
A Texas jewelery store: "Diamond tiaras -- $70,000. Three for $200,000."
A reducing salon: "24 Shaping Days until Christmas."
In a stationery store: "For the man who has everything: A calendar to remind him when payments are due."
Bridal boutique: "Marry Christmas."
"Nothing is inferior for being old, and nothing is valuable for being modern."
- John Piper
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