O Come Let Us Adore Him!

"A bottle comes flying through her door and immediately lights up her living room," said Hermosa Beach, California, police sergeant Paul Wolcott. "She was barely able to escape with her life."  Wolcott was describing the aftermath of a Molotov cocktail thrown through a woman's glass front door, causing $200,000 in damages.  Brandi Nicole Nason threw the gasoline bomb on Christmas Day 2003 into the home of her former stepmother because Nason was dissatisfied with a Christmas gift the woman had given her.  (Taken from the book Stupid Christmas, by Leland Gregory currently a free download from the Amazon Kindle Library) Well the lesson to be learned here is that if you draw Brandi's name in the family or office gift lottery you will want to ask her what she wants for Christmas ... and the make sure you get it. The dissatisfaction with "things" is an opposite reaction from the ones who received the first and true gift of Christmas: Joseph chose obedience to God's gift and married Mary without divorcing her quietly Mary chose servant-hood and was willing to carry and give birth to God's gift Shepherds chose to share the good news of the gift of God Wise-Men chose to bow down, give gifts, and worship the gift of God ******************************************** What gift did you get this year that you did not like? What gift will you be returning or have already returned? You won't throw a flaming bottle through a door will you?