This poem is
for my husband.
I don’t know if
he and I have ever given each other gifts,
gifts that met
the other’s need
as much as we’d
hoped they would.
But If I could
see inside his heart,
I believe there
is a place that he
wants to give
me the gift I want,
and this
Christmas, that will be enough.
So, this year, when
he gives me the yellow dress that I will never wear,
and he laughs
because he knows I am going to return it,
he will know
that I have not begrudged his gift.
I don’t think
there is any better gift than
contentment,
and it is
something
that we can
even give ourselves
when we return
to God.
Keep your
lives free from the love of money and be content with what you have, because God
has said, “Never will I leave you; never will I forsake you.”- Hebrews 13:5
