Tuesday, December 16, 2014

The Kindness of a Christmas Surprise

"I don't think Christmas is necessarily about things.  It's about being good to one another, it's about the Christian ethic, it's about kindness."
~ Carrie Fisher

A woman I know was missing her Christmas tree.  She had managed to send out her Christmas cards, but the hustle bustle of activity had gotten in the way of her organizing the annual tree buying expedition and of getting the ornaments and other decorations out of storage.  And then one night, she got home with her children to find that her husband had arrived before them and set up the tree and bought boxes of new ornaments to decorate it.  It reminded her of a Christmas almost 20 years earlier when her then-boyfriend showed up at her apartment with her first tree and boxes of ornaments.  Same guy.

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