There is something tantalisingly magical about a bulging Christmas stocking stuffed with enticingly anonymous little packages, or piles of colourful gifts of every indescribable shape and size piled higgledy-piggledy beneath the glow of a bedecked Christmas Tree!
What makes these gifts so special? Yes, of course there is the obvious anticipation and surprise – even an element of learning how much someone really cares about you by how insightful their choice for you is… or discovering how much they value you by how much they have been willing to spend on you…
But what about the magic? That ephemeral, indefinable and elusive something which annually turns our Midwinter gift-giving into something so powerfully captivating that it enchants young and old alike – only too often to lead to disappointment, disenchantment and disgruntlement once the wrapping has been ripped away and the secret contents finally revealed.
Perhaps it is only fair to accept that no matter what someone gives us, no matter how much love, effort, thought and money a person might have put into our gift, it can never actually live up to our totally unrealistic and out of proportion expectations.
However, I have a suggestion to make. It has been scientifically proven that our thoughts actually become tangible and their energies can be electronically measured. So, when you are thinking about, or making, buying or even just wrapping a gift, stop for a moment and place your hands on that item and fill yourself with loving thoughts of the person you are going to present it to. If you like, charge the gift with your love.
When the gift is unwrapped, the warmth of your love will come flooding out with the contents. The recipient of your gift will never know why the gloves, book, toiletries or handkerchiefs always feel so very special and never cease to make them feel all aglow – but it will be there all the same – the extra element of magical love, invisibly but indelibly added to you gift for ever more… literally, the gift that keeps on giving.
Here is a chance to turn even the most mundane, the cheapest, the simplest gift into a treasure beyond compare!
What could be more magical than that?
