In this Christmas season, everybody has been thinking a lot about gifts for friends, gifts for co-workers, gifts for random acquaintances, and it made me think about gifts that we can give to Jesus. Since we don't see him all the time, it would be hard to give him something physical, such as a teddy bear, or perhaps a soft blanket. Here is what I've found, which he has said in the scriptures that he wants.
1. A broken heart and a contrite spirit.
He wants us to come to him and be healed, so we can be perfected in him.
2. He wants us to take care of his siblings here on Earth, who need help.
He wants us to take care of every brother that we see who has the need of help that we can give.
While I was writing this post, my little brother said, "What he wants us to give is ourselves." I thought this was very wise. He wants us to give all of ourselves for his holy cause of love and peace.
Marjorie Hinckley said it well:
“I don't want to drive up to the pearly gates in a shiny sports car,
wearing beautifully, tailored clothes, my hair expertly coiffed, and
with long, perfectly manicured fingernails.
I want to drive up in a station wagon that has mud on the wheels from taking kids to scout camp.
I want to be there with a smudge of peanut butter on my shirt from making sandwiches for a sick neighbors children.
I want to be there with a little dirt under my fingernails from helping to weed someone's garden.
I want to be there with children's sticky kisses on my cheeks and the tears of a friend on my shoulder."
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