"Karsten [Piper], for example, worked hard on one gift one year. One Christmas morning in 1975, my husband [John Piper] stepped around a large, loose-flapped cardboard box to get to his chair at the breakfast table. 'Where's Karsten?' he asked, expecting to see our excited three-year-old raring to leap into the day.
Sitting down, I said, 'He'll be here in a minute.' I nudged the box with my toe.
Karsten threwback the flaps and rose to his full three-foot stature. 'And there were shepherds living out in the fields nearby, keeping watch over their flocks at night. An angel of the Lord appeared to them . . .' He had memorized Luke 2:8-20 as a gift for his dad." (Piper, Noel. Treasuring God in Our Traditions. Wheaton, IL: Crossway. 2003. p81)
Now
that is a great Christmas present!
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