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members. Boy, did I see red!
• At the beginning of the month of December, my checkbook is in the black, but each day of the month the black begins to fade into expanding shades of red. By the time the 24^th of the month comes around my checkbook is a solid, brilliant, scarlet red.
• I sighed quite deeply as I closed my checkbook. I almost said to my wife, "Remember the day...?" I stopped short of vocalizing that thought. I thought back when we first were married, which seems like hundreds of years ago, we only got presents for each other. I bought one present for her and she bought one present for me. What a Merry Christmas we had back in "the day."
• A few days later as we were wrapping those presents I began thinking of another color. I looked at my wife and said, "This must be what they mean when they talked about the golden days." She laughed, and I thought some more.
• My thoughts centered on the fact of what a wonderful family we have. After all those years, we have accumulated a marvelous family. Thinking about all the ones in my family, I began to retract those thoughts of veto.
• "You know," I said to my wife quite thoughtfully, "red becomes my checkbook." All that red means all that family.
• The Christmas holiday season means family. There is no family more glorious than the family of God. The Bible says, "For God so loved the world, that he gave

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