In a certain village in Mexico, many years ago, it was customary on Christmas Eve to take gifts to the church and place them before the creche.  One evening there was a small boy standing outside the church door.  How he wished he could enter the church and present the gift to Jesus...but he was poor.  He had nothing to give.

"I can at least pray," he thought to himself.  He knelt silently outside the church window and listened to the voices raised in song.  When he rose to his feet again, he was amazed at what he saw in the spot where he had knelt.  It was a beautiful plant with scarlet leaves and a yellow flower in the center.  He had never seen anything like it.  Realizing it was a miracle, he carefully plucked it and took it into the church.  As he placed the beautiful flower before the manger, he whispered, "This is my gift to the Christ Child.  My own precious gift."