{"id":38251,"date":"2025-11-24T22:00:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-25T05:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/?p=38251"},"modified":"2025-11-19T00:14:48","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T07:14:48","slug":"251125-gift","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/251125-gift\/","title":{"rendered":"The Greatest Gift You Can Give"},"content":{"rendered":"

by Max Lucado<\/p>\n

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Crankcase oil coursed my dad\u2019s veins.\u00a0He repaired engines for a living; Dad loved machines.\u00a0God gave my dad a mechanical moron, a son who couldn\u2019t differentiate between a differential and a brake disc.\u00a0Dad tried to teach me. I tried to learn. Honestly, I did.\u00a0Machines anesthetized me, but books fascinated me.<\/p>\n

What does a mechanic do with a son who loves books?\u00a0He gives him a library card. Buys him a few volumes for Christmas. Places a lamp by his bed so he can read at night. Pays tuition so his son can study college literature in high school.\u00a0My dad did that. You know what he didn\u2019t do?\u00a0Never once did he say, \u201cWhy can\u2019t you be a mechanic like your dad and granddad?\u201d<\/p>\n

Study your children while you can.\u00a0The greatest gift you can give your children is not your riches, but revealing to them their own.<\/p>\n

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Crankcase oil coursed my dad\u2019s veins. He repaired engines for a living; Dad loved machines. God gave my dad a mechanical moron, a son who couldn\u2019t differentiate between a differential and a brake disc. Dad tried to teach me. I tried to learn. Honestly, I did. Machines anesthetized me, but books fascinated me.<\/p>\n

What does a mechanic do with a son who loves books? He gives him a library card. Buys him a few volumes for Christmas. Places a lamp by his bed so he can read at night. Pays tuition so his son can study college literature in high school. My dad did that. You know what he didn\u2019t do? Never once did he say, \u201cWhy can\u2019t you be a mechanic like your dad and granddad?\u201d<\/p>\n

Study your children while you can. The greatest gift you can give your children is not your riches, but revealing to them their own.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38253,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-upwords"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38251"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38251\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38254,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38251\/revisions\/38254"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}