Gift Giving
December 3, 2018
I’m Miriam Neff-with STARTING OVER FINANCIALLY,-and I’m Valerie Neff Hogan, and we’re here to talk about money
M December is a month of gift giving. Why the tradition? It may have started with the three Magi who followed the star to baby Jesus in Bethlehem. They gave gifts of great worth: gold, frankincense, myrrh.
V Mary and Joseph were common folks. They must have been shocked. How was the wealth spent? Some guess that his parents used it to secure a better childhood education in their jewish history and customs than they could afford. Others say that might be why he had a cloak with no seams, which would have been more expensive than traditional cloaks. We simply do not know.
M The gifts reflected the hearts of the givers. A good place for us to begin our gift preparations.