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By Annette Stonger<\/p>\n

Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights, who does not change like shifting shadows.<\/em><\/p>\n

James 1:17 <\/strong><\/p>\n

Have you ever received a gift for Christmas you\u2019ll always remember?\u00a0 You might be smiling right now just thinking about it!\u00a0 When I was a little girl, my parents gave my brother and sister and I a choice between receiving many little presents or one big gift.\u00a0 I was the only one who chose the one item.\u00a0 On Christmas morning, my sister and brother opened a lot of gifts while only one small card lay under the tree for me.\u00a0 Yet, that single gift contained the biggest, most exciting gift I can remember\u2014horseback riding lessons!\u00a0 I jumped up and hugged my mom and dad.\u00a0 I will never forget that morning.<\/p>\n

You might be wracking your brain trying to remember what you received for Christmas last year.\u00a0 Yet, every year we do <\/em>celebrate a life-changing, yet small gift that everyone on earth has received.\u00a0 A tiny baby in a manger, Jesus, was born over two thousand years ago.\u00a0 That little package, specially gift-wrapped by God in human skin, came to earth to save us from every mistake we would every make.\u00a0 Now that\u2019s a gift to celebrate and remember!<\/p>\n

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Annette Stonger is a former English teacher who currently writes for Mainstream blog (www.womenmainstream.blogspot.com<\/a>).\u00a0 Presently living in Indiana, she previously taught middle and high school English in Texas and Washington State.<\/p>\n

Growing up in Oregon, Annette was a teenager when she wrote her first article for the youth magazine at her church.\u00a0 Several years and states later, she began writing for and publishing the Divine Lines newsletter at her church in Indiana.\u00a0 Annette not only co-leads a weekly women\u2019s Bible study in which she has lead numerous studies, but she also works with elementary students on Sundays.<\/p>\n

Annette and her husband, Tony, have lived in the Midwest for the past 10 years. Mom of three, Annette edits her children\u2019s papers and corrects their English.\u00a0 She desires to communicate God\u2019s love and truth to all ages through her writing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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