Gifts

Here are some great gift ideas to buy for someone who might be having a tough time during this holiday season. (And don’t forget to include yourself, if you need support and cheering up.)

Music

Anything by Mozart
Gregorian chant
Any collection of music with “Relaxing” or “Peaceful” in the title
The opera Madame Butterfly
Any of the collections of Elvis singing gospel music
Something by Handel
The three-cd compilation of songs sung by Emmylou Harris

Growing Things

A windowsill herb garden
An amaryllis that will bloom a few weeks after the gift is received

Bath Stuff

Anything that contains lavender or tangerine

Candles

Vanilla, citrus, lemongrass

Journal Books

Any kind of blank page book. Why not include a handful of pens?

Poems

Any book of beautiful poems

Books of prayers and Sacred Scriptures

Check books like Oxford Book of Prayer, Celtic Benediction: Morning and Evening Prayers, The Book of Common Prayer, Bishop Tutu’s book of African prayers, and others. Also look at The Message, a translation of the Bible in modern speech.

Gift certificates

For books and music or for plants and flowers at a garden center

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Dr. Elizabeth Harper Neeld offers wisdom and practical insights to anyone whose life is in a time of transition, change, grief and loss of any kind. As an internationally recognized and accomplished consultant, and author of more than twenty books - including Tough Transitions and Seven Choices: Finding Daylight After Loss Shatters Your World - she is committed to work that helps lift the human spirit.