{"id":828,"date":"2009-12-25T05:00:47","date_gmt":"2009-12-25T05:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/freshliving\/2009\/12\/fresh-morning-the-giving-christmas-heart.html"},"modified":"2009-12-25T05:00:47","modified_gmt":"2009-12-25T05:00:47","slug":"fresh-morning-the-giving-christmas-heart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/freshliving\/2009\/12\/fresh-morning-the-giving-christmas-heart.html","title":{"rendered":"Fresh Morning: The Giving Christmas Heart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"sun1.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/84\/import\/sun1.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-left\" style=\"margin: 0pt 20px 20px 0pt;float: left\" height=\"50\" width=\"50\" \/><\/span> <\/p>\n<div>Merry Christmas to our readers who are celebrating this morning.&nbsp; For a little more holiday inspiration, a quote from famous turn-of-the-century Baptist minister, George Matthew Adams.&nbsp; 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