My musical diet from Thanksgiving until New Year’s Day consists mostly of Christmas songs, carols, and hymns. Admittedly, I lean towards a good melancholy melody, and one song rose to the top this year – Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas! The song encourages muddling through the difficulties of the present year, and allowing our hearts to be light because next year our troubles will be out of sight. One verse even suggests,
Regifting is the act of taking a received gift and giving it to somebody else, often in the guise of a new gift. It has become such a practice that the USA has declared December 18th as “National Regifting Day”, and Canada has marketed December 26-30, as “National Regifting Week”! And now there are even websites and apps available to assist you in turning your unwanted gifts into cash! Candles, picture frames, and yes, fruitcake, make the top 10 list of the most regifted presents.
Have you ever shared a weighty matter of your heart with another person hoping they would say “just the right thing” to soothe your pain? I have from time to time and I have walked away, not necessarily with an antidote to my pain, but with the assurance that the listener “said all the right things” without really meaning the right thing. So I began to ponder, “What does ‘they said all the right things really mean?”
As is often the case, at the time I began pondering, I read…
Have you ever shared a weighty matter of your heart with another person hoping they would say “just the right thing” to soothe your pain? I have from time to time and I have walked away, not necessarily with an antidote to my pain, but with the assurance that the listener “said all the right things” without really meaning the right thing. So I began to ponder, “What does ‘they said all the right things’ really mean?”
