As the Christmas season approaches many persons are searching for that perfect gift. To me the restoration and giving of life are on top of my list. I see these gifts in the eyes of people restored to health and parents that give birth and watch their children grow.
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We simply love gifts
What about red roses
A bottle of wine
Or a sports car?
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What about gifts
That come miraculously
From spontaneous healing?
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What about the gift
Of being free
From breast or ovarian cancer
Through a surgeon’s hands
Who is considered to be
A miracle worker?
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What about gifts
Persons thought
To be drowned
Receive through
Mouth-to-mouth resuscitation
And become alive?
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These are all astounding gifts
But the gift
That always blow me away
Is the gift of life
Experienced by a couple
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They both go
To the hospital’s delivery room
As the mother’s water breaks
When she’s about to give birth
There’s the medical team
To greet them
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They begin coaching her
Pain envelopes her being
Which is visibly seen
On her face
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She’s groaning
Her husband comforts her
She’s advised when to push
As the medical team
Keeps an eye
On her vitals
Eventually she crowns
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As her doctor carefully guides
Their baby while kicking
And screaming
To our unimaginable world
He severs his umbilical cord
Cleans him off
And places him besides his mother
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Both mother and father
Are joyful this Christmas Day
As a lullaby is piped
Throughout the hospital
Marking the arrival
Of their living gift
Into this exciting world
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Their feelings for this child
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Live on and on
All the days of their lives
Through the joys he brings them
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Nicely written 
Very nice. God is the greatest gift giver.
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