"Make thanksgiving your sacrifice to God ..." (v. 14)

With Thanksgiving near and Christmas not far behind, I wonder if any of you have people who are very difficult to shop for, people for whom it is very difficult to decide what to give. The two hardest people on my shopping list were always my grandparents. Especially as the years went by, I found myself asking, "What do you give to people who already have everything?" New sweaters or potholders or neckties didn’t mean very much, since they were already amply supplied. A new book might be nice, but they already had plenty of books, and a new book didn’t seem very creative anyway. It was very hard to decide what to give them.

I’ll tell you how we solved the problem in our family. My grandfather was completely bald, so one of his present…