Are you spending time thinking of a Christmas present for me? No need to, because for me, YOU are the greatest gift!<\/p>\n
You are a gift
\nYou are a gift when you smile.
\nYou are a gift when you pray for others.
\nYou are a gift when you encourage others.
\nYou are a gift when you are kind to others.
\nYou are a gift when you are respectful of everyone.
\nYou are a gift when you simply listen to other people.
\nYou are a gift when you forgive those who offend you.
\nYou are a gift when you do things with good intentions.
\nYou are a gift when you give time to family and friends.
\nYou are a gift when you appreciate others with sincerity.
\nYou are a gift when you serve as a good example to others.
\nYou are a gift when you are grateful for everything you have.
\nYou are a gift when you reach out to others who are in need.
\nYou are a gift when you find happiness in the simple things.
\nYou are a gift when you laugh out loud with family and friends.
\nIndeed, YOU are the greatest gift when you do things out of LOVE.
\nYes
\nFor me and the rest of the world
\nyou are the greatest Christmas gift
\nby simply being WHO YOU ARE<\/p>\n
Rosemarie D. Embile is an elementary teacher at Northern Marianas International School for four years. She is also a public secondary school teacher in the Philippines for more than a decade. Her teaching experiences inspired her to share some thoughts and ideas through writing blogs, Facebook pages, Google sites, etc.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Are you spending time thinking of a Christmas present for me? No need to, because…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[401,843,63],"class_list":["post-314769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinion","tag-facebook","tag-google","tag-philippines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=314769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314769\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=314769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=314769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=314769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}