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“Some gifts by their very nature make you swallow your pride.”

A thought by Timothy Keller (2016-10-25) from his book, Hidden Christmas: The Surprising Truth Behind the Birth of Christ (p. 17). Penguin Publishing Group. Kindle Edition. (Click on the title to go to Amazon.com to buy the book.) We are going to head next week to Las Vegas where our daughter, Stef, our son-in-law, Andrew and our youngest granddaughter, Harper live.   Our son, Brett and his family will also be coming.   We are going to be celebrating Christmas together this year.   But we have a problem.   I’m not sure that we can fit in our Kia Sportage all the gifts that Margaret and I have bought for our family.   But we are going to try.   Now I hadn’t thought of the fact that some presents cause us to swallow our pride but as Tim says I can see they can. He says, “Imagine opening a present on Christmas morning from a friend— and it’s a dieting book. Then you take off another ribbon and wrapper and you find it is another book from another friend, Overcoming Selfishn