I heard an ad on the radio the other day for a jewelry store promoting diamond earrings for Christmas. It was about how the wife opened the box and found the diamond earrings, inserted them and they made her face light up and she become beautiful. It made me think about the commercialism of Christmas, how the real gifts we can give are ourselves- our time and love- and what really makes a woman beautiful is not two rocks on either side of her face, but what is within. A mother holding her baby for the first time is beautiful, a mother holding her toddler's hand while she gets a shot is beautiful, a mother letting her teenage daughter drive, while she white knuckles it is beautiful, a mother doing what is right for her children and making painful choices is beautiful. Don't buy into the myth of getting the perfect gift to make the perfect Christmas. The perfect Christmas lies within.
" Your most precious, valued possessions and your greatest powers are invisible and intangible. No one can take them. You and you alone can give them. W. Clement Stone
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