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I spend at least a little bit of time on my visit to discount department stores looking at the DVD sale rack. Why you ask, because that is where one can often find the movies that are the classics for teaching the truths of Christ and Christmas. Hollywood keeps trying to repackage the old, old story in new contexts. The classics of "It's a Wonderful Life" or "A Christmas Carol" are just two of the classic stories that tell us we are valued by God and God seeks us to live a life that puts others before we put ourselves. Just like Jesus the Christ modeled for the human race.

I saw a special for the first time recently on the Hallmark that wasn't new. It was a story of a couple who moved to a large mansion. The husband was busy spending nearly every waking hour to make his first business, one he opened with a college buddy, expand. He thought then he could really get everything his family deserved. What he was neglecting was his wife and daughter. His family's mysterious hostess who at first was not very warm, soon took an interest in him and his family. She began trying to teach him, indirectly, the importance of the first Christmas gift. First he thought this gift was love. Then shortly after it was discovered his hostess was dyng, he learned that the greatest gift, the first Christmas gift was a child.

The dad decided not to take an offer to expand his business, but used the gift of his dieing host, her home, to appreciate the value of time with his family. He could never purchase this with money. He learned priceless gift was that of selfless love.