The 3 Most Important Gifts to Give This Year
Not done with your shopping yet?
Here are three gifts to give this season: kindness, compassion, and acceptance.
In the months leading up to Christmas, people start searching for just the perfect gift to give people on their list. Do we buy a new sweater for dad? A video game for our son? New running shoes for our daughter?
The closer it gets to Christmas, the more intense the search for just the right gift becomes. However, in all of our busyness and desire for perfection, we often overlook some of the simplest and yet most important gifts that we could give.
The gifts of kindness, compassion, and acceptance are valued not only by our friends and family members but by everyone in our extended community. Each time we give one of these gifts, it continues beyond the recipient.
Mahatma Gandhi is credited with saying, “ Be the change you want to see in this world.” So if you want to begin to change even your small corner of the world, let’s explore these gifts and the change that they can make not only in ourselves as givers but also in those around us who receive the gift.
Kindness
Kindness is defined as being friendly and generous, and considerate. And yet kindness is so much more than just being nice and being…
