Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
More and more, unsolicited gifts from without are likely to be received with unconscious resentment.
Presents are symbolic. When you give them in your personal life, they should show that you are paying attention to the person to whom you're giving them.
For many families, gift-giving is a major source of stress - the relentless commercialism, the whining demands, the financial pressure.
Presents can make up for some of the disappointments that life doles out, such as it makes almost no sense and is coming to an end more quickly than ever.
When a gift is difficult to give away, it becomes even more rare and precious, somehow gathering a part of the giver to the gift itself.
The manner of giving is worth more than the gift.
All sorts of spiritual gifts come through privations, if they are accepted.
As you say goodbye to lingering disappointments and unattended grief, you will discover that every person, situation and painful incident comes bearing gifts.
For the will and not the gift makes the giver.
When you're in a position to have gotten so much, the gift at this point is giving back.