<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=460387" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>0008 The Gift</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Who does not wish to give the perfect gift<br>to those we love – to whom we have already<br>given the greatest gift we have – our heart? <br>To choose a visible and outward sign<br>of love whose meaning’s inward, spiritual? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">But who would dare to challenge innocence<br>and ignorance in their demonic bond, <br>and break the spell of Christmas wish and hope<br>by telling children, that old Santa Claus<br>is but the God who gave their life to them -<br>dressed up in red and white and snowy beard; <br>and who, in needing nothing of himself, <br>would be delighted to receive their thanks<br>and nothing more; and who, we might believe<br>of one who has all gifts in his command, <br>might be obliged by those laws he himself<br>created, out of justice, equity, <br>to give them that which they themselves have made –<br>a life of gratitude for life itself –<br>a life of praise, where all the world is gift<br>beyond all human gifts? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">What parents now<br>might give their children gold, myrrh, frankincense<br>with all their love; and teach them by this show<br>why Christmas gifts are godly metaphor? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Of course, no parents would dare break this spell; <br>you’ll laugh at me for this absurdity; <br>yet it might build a clear-eyed, praising race<br>who thought in metaphor; spoke poetry.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Michael+Shepherd">Michael Shepherd</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=460387" data-title="0008 The Gift de Michael Shepherd" data-description="Who does not wish to give the perfect gift to those we love – to whom we have already given the greatest gift we have – our heart? To choose a visible and outward sign of love whose meaning’s inward, spiritual? But who would dare to chall..."></div> </div> </div>

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