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<p class="text">My family and friends keep asking me what I want for Christmas. My honest answer is that I don't want anything for Christmas. They keep poking at me, saying surely there is something I want, but no, I tell them, there is nothing I want or need for Christmas.</p>
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<p class="text">Here's a hard truth of life and I'm probably going to be the only one who will tell you. You spend the first half of your life accumulating stuff and you spend the second half of your life taking all that stuff to Goodwill.</p>
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<p class="text">I'm 65 years old and frankly, I don't need any more trips to Goodwill.</p>
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<p class="text">Right now, I'm learning to read e-books. I hate e-books. You can't argue with the author. You can't write notes in the margins or scratch out entire paragraphs that don't make sense. I don't read a book. I devour it and I don't leave much left when I'm through. You can't do that with an e-book. Sure, you can make notes, but you can't tell from the highlights on the e-text how intensely you agreed or disagreed with the author.</p>
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<p class="text">But here's what I'm dealing with. I'm 65 and while I haven't thought about retiring, everyone keeps asking when I'm going to retire. My wife has put it more succinctly: “Where are you going to put all of your books when you retire? You don't think you're going to bring all of those books into this house, do you?”</p>
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<p class="text">I'd love to get books for Christmas, but where would I put them?</p>
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<p class="text">And I have enough ties. I have fat ties, skinny ties, striped ties, and paisley ties. I have ties for every occasion. Since the pandemic, we're not wearing ties anymore. So, now I have enough ties to last me a lifetime.</p>
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<p class="text">I don't need anything.</p>
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<p class="text">So, let me tell you what I want.</p>
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<p class="text">I want date ...</p><p class="more"><a href="https://www.christianitytoday.com/scot-mcknight/2021/december/only-gift-i-want.html">Continue reading</a>...</p>
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