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WHAT DO YOU WANT FOR CHRISTMAS?

by Ernest Easley

Scripture: Proverbs 8:1-36


Title: What Do You Want for Christmas?
Author: Ernest Easley
Text: Proverbs 8

Are you ready for Christmas? You say, "Ernest, of course I'm ready for Christmas. It's my favorite time of the year." Perhaps I should ask it another way: have you completed all your Christmas shopping? Not as ready as you thought, huh?

I never know what to get my wife and family for Christmas. I'm a better spender than a shopper. I've become a fan of online shopping: no searching for a parking place, no crowds, no walking, no shoving, no noise. Just click it, make sure it's in your basket, and pay for it. Done.

To make it even less stressful, I now just ask them one simple question in determining what I get for them: What do you want for Christmas? Then if their request doesn't fit my budget, my follow up question is: What else do you want for Christmas?

What about you? What do you want for Christmas this year? If you could wish for one thing for Christmas, what would you wish for?

Back in 1944, Donald Gardner was teaching music at a public school in Smithtown, New York. He asked his second-grade class what they wanted for Christmas and noticed that almost all of the students had a least one front tooth missing, and they answered in a lisp. After class, he sat down and in 30 minutes wrote the song, "All I want for Christmas is My Two Front Teeth, my two front teeth, see my two front teeth. If I could only have my two front teeth, then I could wish you "Merry Christmas."

What about you today? You fill in the blank: "All I want for Christmas is _______________." Three men were marooned on a desert island with no hope of rescue. One day they were walking around the island when one of them kicked up a lamp. He rubbed it; a genie appeared and offered each man one wish.

The first man excitedly said, "I wish I was back in my office in Boston." Poof! He was gone. The second man said, "I wish I was at home with my family." Poof! He was gone. The last man loo ...

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