{"id":1841,"date":"2014-12-05T13:26:00","date_gmt":"2014-12-05T19:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/give-your-family-and-friends-perfec\/"},"modified":"2019-02-18T10:01:55","modified_gmt":"2019-02-18T16:01:55","slug":"give-your-family-and-friends-perfec","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/?p=1841","title":{"rendered":"Give Your Family and Friends “The Perfect Gift for Christmas”"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I keep getting email messages that the subject line reads, “Give your family and friends “THE PERFECT GIFT FOR CHRISTMAS”.  I was deleting most of those and not even finding out what they meant until yesterday.  THE PERFECT GIFT???  A Gift Card.  And, I thought, yes, gift cards are great because you can buy anything you want.  But, why not just give someone cash?  What’s the big deal of the PERFECT GIFT being a Gift Card?  I’m really grateful for any gift that comes to me, but I receive, and have even given, gift cards to stores that just maybe the receiver of the gift card just doesn’t shop there…..and then when you get to the store and start looking…..it takes FOREVER to find something there you want to use the gift card for.  PERFECT?  I don’t think so.<\/p>\n

I think you know where I’m headed with that observation.  THE PERFECT GIFT?  That ONLY PERFECT GIFT we could ever give, is that of HIM, Who is the PERFECT One, Who isn’t a tangible “thing”, but is the ALL in ALL, BEGINNING and END of joy, comfort, peace, life, love, happiness, and life everlasting. <\/p>\n

So how do we give that PERFECT GIFT to others — by giving ourselves as peacemakers, servants, joy-peace-hope bearers, by being LIGHTS that this world so needs and wants.  Though Jesus is the ultimate, ever-ready, radiant, source of LIGHT that dispels darkness…..He told us in Matthew 5:14-16 “You are the light of the world. A city set on a hill cannot be hid.  Neither do men light a lamp, and put it under the bushel, but on the stand; and it shines to all that are in the house.  Even so let YOUR light shine before men; that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father who is in heaven.” <\/p>\n

Your GIFT this season?   YOU and YOUR LIGHT shining brightly so that others will come to know THE PERFECT GIFT — Jesus Christ!
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I keep getting email messages that the subject line reads, “Give your family and friends “THE PERFECT GIFT FOR CHRISTMAS”.  I was deleting most of those and not even finding out what they meant until yesterday.  THE PERFECT GIFT???  A Gift Card.  And, I thought, yes, gift cards are great because you can buy anything…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[11031,4079,6829,11032,11033,3670,723,11034,509,511,8769],"class_list":["post-1841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-city-set-on-a-hill","tag-dispels-darkness","tag-gift-card","tag-give-ourselves","tag-give-yourself","tag-jesus-christ","tag-light-of-the-world","tag-lights-to-the-world","tag-matthew-514-16","tag-perfect-gift","tag-perfect-one"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1841","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1841"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1841\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3094,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1841\/revisions\/3094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mypeacezone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}