Do Your Gifts Come With Expectations?

What exactly does the word, “gift,” mean to you? I’ve been dwelling on this questions recently. We make our Christmas lists or tell people what we want for our birthday and guess what — we get exactly what we expected. We request and we receive, and this beautiful concept of “gift” is slowly being reduced to a shopping list or concierge service. And really, that’s too bad. Because a gift should be so much more than the fulfillment of an expectation. There’s a beautiful backstory to the book Surprised By Joy, by renowned author and philologist,…
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