How did Jesus celebrate? He gave Himself relationally – time, space, presence

Let’s buy fewer GIFTS (that the recipient doesn’t need and won’t even remember after a few months) and, instead, give our TIME. Let’s talk, eat, sled, bake, bike, read, play, create, craft, and ice skate TOGETHER!

Or, we can MAKE gifts ourselves.

Then, give away the money we would have spent to help people who will remember it for the rest of their lives (people in poverty).

If you don’t know where to go to help people in poverty, I can recommend World Vision. We started buying livestock and things like that a few years ago. I’d love to be like Ann Voskamp’s family who only gives gifts from charities like World Vision – i.e. no gifts exchanged among family members, just gifts given “to Jesus” i.e. to the poor, in Jesus’ name.