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A Gift of Love One of my favorite Christmas stories has to do with a missionary in Africa. Before Christmas she had been telling the students how Christians, in happiness, gave presents to others on the occasion of Christ's birthday. A few days later, on Christmas morning, one of these native students brought the missionary a beautiful, lustrous seashell. When asked where he had discovered such an extraordinary shell, he said he had walked many miles to a certain ocean bay, the only spot where such shells could be found. She exclaimed, "What a beautiful gift! It must have been a real sacrifice for you to have traveled so far to get it." His eyes brightened as he replied, "Long walk, part of gift!" background by Cathye |