Welcome to today's Our Daily Bread Devotional.

I'm Sheridan Voizzi, and I've called our reading Christmas Dilemma.

David and Angie had felt called to move overseas,

and the fruitful ministry that followed seemed to confirm it.

But there was one downside

to their move. David's elderly parents would now spend Christmases alone. David and Angie tried

to mitigate his parents' Christmas Day loneliness by posting gifts early and calling on Christmas

morning, but what his parents really wanted was them.

With David's income only permitting an occasional trip home,

what else could they do?

David needed wisdom.

Proverbs 3 is a crash course in wisdom-seeking,

showing us how to receive it by taking our situations to God,

describing its various qualities such as love and faithfulness

and its benefits as peace and longevity.

In a touching note, it adds that God gives us such wisdom

by taking us into his confidence.

He whispers his solutions to those who are close to him.

Praying about his problem one night, David had an idea.

Next Christmas day, he and Angie put on their best clothes, decorated the table with tinsel,

and brought in the roast dinner.

David's parents did the same.

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