Happy Holidays
Well here it is another year that is about gone from us! Just to think that nearly 365 days have come and almost gone from our lives! Have you ever stopped and evaluated what you have done for GOD in the past year? I sure have! I don't mean what we have given in monetary means because some people do not have money to give away for anything but housing, food and bills! But have you ever looked back and recalled what you did for another person?
How many people have you helped...maybe through a word or something you may have done for someone? Maybe you watched someone's children while they ran an errand...or perhaps you took the time and visited some sick elderly person in a Nursing Home or even in their own home and perhaps you read them a story or a few verses from the Bible? Did you wipe a child's tears away when they may have fallen or hurt themselves? Did you take a cake or some food-stuffs to a person who may have lost a loved one this year? Did you comfort someone who seemed so far down and depressed that they felt they had no where to turn? Or maybe you did some grocery shopping for someone who was "house-bound"...or rubbed some lotion on some one's feet or hands, who may have been bed-ridden and ill? You may have told some child the story of Jesus or maybe you have given clothes and toys to a charity that helps those who are less fortunate than you?
Have you ever thought about just how many toys some of our children and grandchildren really have in their rooms and in the toy-chests? Take a look sometime! My own grandchildren have so many toys that they will never be able to play with all of them! Some are used and worn, but most are like new! Have you ever thought about some children who do not even have "one good toy"? Why not have your children (or talk with the older children-adults into having their own little ones) share with others? Maybe have them pick out a toy or even more (3 or 5) and put them in a bag and give them to some unfortunate children who have nothing?!
I remember Mother & Daddy taking me out to the country every weekend to visit the old country Aunts 'n' Uncles (they were the sweetest people)! One time (the day before we left) they got a bag full of my old clothes (washed & ironed , of course!) and some toys that I didn't play with anymore, and told me what they were going to do...when we drove to the country, on the right side of the road was an old run-down shanty, barely standing up, and there were always about seven or eight little kids outside when we would drive by. All of them were so ragged and dirty-looking. So on this day we drove up there, well Daddy stopped the car and took out the bags and left them in front of the house by the yard...we no sooner took off than the little kids ran out and began tearing open the bags; oh, you could see how happy they were with those old "hand-me-downs" and toys of mine! I cry even now to see them in my mind! But of course when I was a child, I just laughed and enjoyed it so much, seeing that we had made them happy! The little girls were holding some dresses up to them and some smaller ones grabbed out some dolls and teddy bears! It was such a wonderful thing to see those little ones made happy by something that we really didn't have any use for anymore...but to them it was like having a treasure box full of goodies!
That is what means so much in my heart. Johnny and I lived in Connecticut back in 1990-91 and while we were there, we saw so many homeless people in the town...and one time we drove through a part of the town that had some buildings mostly torn down and it was cold winter. I told him to stop and we walked into these buildings that were nearly falling down from destruction, and there was a few rooms that we noticed had some leftovers of tin cans and litter in them...so we surmised that some people had been living in there.
We drove home and I got some blankets, coats, pillows and extra foods, then went back to the buildings and there we left them for those homeless people. So about a week later we drove back to re-visit the buildings and there where we took them, the people had made a little bed for themselves with the pillows and blankets...it really made us feel good that they were being used and that we had made life somewhat easier for someone we didn't even know...and that is what life is all about! Giving and loving and sharing and caring about others!
So at this year's end, let's all think back and remember what we have done to show others the love of GOD in some small way and thank GOD that HE has filled us with the compassion to such things for our fellowman! For it is not of ourselves that we do anything good for another, but by the love and grace of GOD that HE gives us within our hearts. May you all have a wonderful holiday and from Thanksgiving through Christmas, Chanukah and the New Year! May your heart be filled with Peace & Love from the Father and the Compassion for others that Jesus gives us to share. GOD bless and keep you all is my prayer and you are so very dear to me, each of you...please take care and always remember, that "YOU are Loved"!
Katie & Johnny
(Dec. 13, 2001)
Re-copied for this site on Oct. 15, 2006.
Music added May 4, 2007 for added pleasure.
GOD Bless Us Everyone!
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