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I'm sure by now everyone has painstakingly selected the finest of gift that you could ever imagine.

You've given the choicest of gift your most thoughtful and careful consideration.

I'm sure that by now you cannot wait to see the look on your family members' faces as they tear open these gifts.

Your heart will leap for joy at their excitement.

Or, as in some cases, you'll twist in pain when you see the disappointment on their faces.

Every Christmas, many people spend money they don't have,

thinking that this will make the loved ones speechless.

I read just a couple of weeks ago, in fact,

that 28% of the populations in America are still paying the debt

that they incurred last Christmas.

I couldn't believe my eyes.

As Scali Wag once said, he said, for millions of people who have been saving for a rainy day,

Christmas is a monsoon season. And I believe just about most of us mean well in wanting to give that perfect gift. Yet, there are those

in their anticipation of others to be bedazzled by their gift can be very painfully disappointed.

Like the man who always been a disappointment to his mother-in-law. Some of you know what I'm talking

about. I was never a disappointment to my mother-in-law. As a matter of fact, I was her favorite

son-in-law. I was her only son-in-law. A wonderful godly woman, she was. But this man really has always, doesn't matter what he does, his mother-in-law criticizes

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