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# All I Want for Christmas:  This Father's Wishlist
- URL: https://brewedfaith.ca/all-i-want-for-christmas-this-fathers-wishlist/
- Published: 2016-12-07T18:06:45.000Z
- Updated: 2026-08-14T04:50:38.000Z
- Author: Tim Gibb
- Tags: Uncategorized, Christmas, Fatherhood, Santa, What I Want for Christmas, Wishlist, #Migrated-1786683019158, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2026-08-14 00:50

Everyone has a wishlist for Christmas. It's time to dig into what we really hope and pray will be "under the tree".

I don't have a lot of wants. Every year when my wife asks me what I would like for Christmas it will likely comes down to a new pair of pyjamas or perhaps a favourite chocolate bar but that sums it up. As a father of young children it is hard to find time to want anything that isn't related to what I do as a dad and husband. But that doesn't mean I don't have a wishlist.

So, at this time of the year I think through the things that I really want, what I think I really need and I put them on my Christmas wishlist praying that they are things that align with what God wants for me year round.

Here is my "father wishlist" in no particular order:

**I long to know God more deeply**. My heart aches to know God. Do you know the feeling of wanting to be closer to someone even when you are holding them tightly? I feel that with Jesus (and I don't want to lose it). I just want to know Him completely. I want to experience the joys that come from knowing God as Moses did in his mountain top experiences, even with the pain and struggle that come with it.

**I desire purpose and meaning**. Honestly I need reminders more than something new and exciting. It would seem that I am as human as everyone else and can't remember how God wants to shape and form me sometimes. I pray for reminders of the purpose and meaning that he has given me.

**I want my wife to experience more of God**. I can't tell you how many times in my marriage I have been in awe of the grace and love that is made visible through my wife's walk with Jesus and the joy it brings her is incredible. I want her to experience that even more and maybe God will help me keep up.

**My heart wants nothing more than for my sons to know a Father that shapes them into His men.** I know I am not the end all and be all and I desire my sons to see God as the Father that perfectly loves them, shapes them, and disciples them. And if I can be deeply involved in the process it would bring me no greater joy.

**I want God's story to be mine**. In a nutshell, my prayer is to be inline with God's will. I want to be conformed to His passions and His heart.

Finally...**A Starbucks Gift Card**. Everyone needs coffee and a place to write 😃.

*What's on your Christmas wishlist?*