Deana Jo Smith

Deana Jo Smith is a highly successful engineer at Tenneco Automotive, and - more importantly - even more successful at the most important job on the planet … being a wonderful wife to Ric and that same nurturing matronly spirit I was blessed with to her children, Lindsay and Aric.

God is like that.He sends wonderful gifts to us all the time, which reminds me of why we celebrate Christmas in the first place … God's greatest Gift of all, Jesus!

And sometimes, like the kid who years later would get his front tooth knocked out playing hockey on those Christ-mas skates, we are disappointed when the gift isn't quite what we wanted.

But, like with the gift of Deana, He never makes mistakes, and sometimes it just takes time to realize how right He was and how perfect for us the Gift was … is!