Last Christmas my husband and I were gifted a 2000-piece puzzle. Now we've completed several 1000-piece puzzles over the years, usually with the help of other family members and guests. But 2000? Yikes! Well, it took a few weeks as it was only the two of us available to work on it, but we finished. Kind of. Much to our dismay, we only had 1,999 puzzle pieces.

OK…That's a really lame title, but I want guys to know that this writing can apply to them as well. I've been told that I have the gift of hospitality. I guess I do. But I think I used to associate that with being a Martha (from the Bible--not Martha Stewart) and almost saw it as a negative.

We've all heard that Biblical account of the Christmas story. You know--Linus' big speech taken from Luke 2, meant to explain to Charlie Brown what Christmas is all about. But let's really think about this entire story.