So, what have you been doing since Christmas Day? If you are like most people in the community, you have been spending countless hours in shopping malls, looking for bargains and exchanging gifts. Retailers tell us that their busiest times are the days immediately after Thanksgiving and the days directly following Christmas. After Thanksgiving we begin gift buying in earnest. After Christmas, we begin the exchanging and bargain hunting frenzy.

What happened with the gifts you chose to give? How were they received? What did that feel like for you? What happened to the gifts you received? How did you react? What did that feel like?

The Christmas season is all about giving and receiving gifts. It's easy to allow ourselves to become so caught up in the choosing and wrapping, the unwrapping a…