A beautiful Christmas story

christmas story

At Christmas,
what is love if not sacrifice?

True story. I sold my beautiful heirloom mahogany and glass display case to get enough money to buy Taeko an exquisite mother-of-pearl safety guard for her chainsaw. She  opened her gift and began to smile while weeping softly at the same time.

“What’s the matter, honey?” I asked.

“Nothing, darling. Nothing at all,” she replied.

Then she told me she had sold her chainsaw to buy the femur of John the Baptist from the palace of Suleiman in Istanbul, to put in my mahogany display case.

We fell into each other’s arms in tears.

Larry Moffitt
Dec 18, 2013

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Author:Larry Moffitt

Larry Moffitt seems like someone who would be smarter than he actually is. He has visited nearly eighty countries in the past four decades. From the Amazon River to North Korea, from Angola to Guatemala to Soviet and post-Soviet Russia, he has mispronounced his way around the world, eating the unidentifiable, pondering... you know... stuff. Mile markers along his life's path include: husband and father, farmer and beekeeper, fiction writer, editor, blogadero, amateur chef, stand-up comedian and so-so poet. His idea of a perfect existence would be to walk around all day, without a tie, and talk with people about God. He and his wife, Taeko (Honey Nim), have five grown children and live in Bowie, Maryland.

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