My "love language" is "gifts". I love to give gifts and I have to admit I love getting gifts. Finding just the right gift is fun and exciting and I work on it because there is nothing better than giving just the "perfect gift".
This year Jeff and I struggled with finding just the "perfect gift" for our oldest son Derek. Every year I ask him what he wants and he usually answers - "I really don't need anything", however, I normally come up with something by just by spending time with him and listening to clues. This year he's not living with us so unfortunately we don't spend as much time with him and had trouble coming up with something. We finally settled on gifts card (which I really dislike giving to people because it's just not as personal). Our other son Wyatt was easy, he told me DAILY that he wanted Touch IPOD, and that all the Eek's (Everybody Else's Kids) were getting them.
On Christmas Eve we had dinner, opened our gifts and then sat and talked together for about 3 hours. We spent quality time as a family, during it I a figured out about 3-4 different gifts we could have given to him (good thing his birthday is in January).
I realized after the night was over the "perfect gift" for ME was spending time with him and my family that evening. I thought about how Jesus came to earth to spend time with us because He loved us. He knew what we need before he came, but spent about 30 years with sinful man and then gave us the MOST "perfect gift", our salvation.
No more fretting over finding the "perfect gift" I know what it is - Spending time with the ones you love. Have wonderful New Year - Happy 2010!!!
