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Show Christmas is time of helping Every Scrooge in the world ought to sit up and take notice of what really does happen at Christmas time. "Bah Humbug," would not be their motto any more. While parents scramble around trying to find Cabbage Cab-bage Patch Dolls, Care Bears and other non-existant toys as well as the definitely existent ones, they are also doing good works. Baking, sewing and aiding those in need. Almost every child from kindergarten through college gives something to someone during this holiday season without expecting anything but good feelings in return. Whether it is Quarters for Christmas, used toys for the needy, canned goods for the Indians, or whatever, everyone gets in on the giving and it feels so good. Here at the newspaper office we have seen folks come in with money contributions or with gifts and toys for the needy family which the newspaper is trying to help for Christmas. Everyone who comes in has a smile on their face and you can see they have joy in their hearts. The bishops, pastors and other church leaders are nearly overrun many times with contributions for families needing help at Christmas time. They love it. We hear of young people taking programs to the shut-ins shut-ins and elderly. We hear of families doing the Twelve Days of Christmas for some kindly neighbor or friend. We read of a little girl who was able to get badly needed heart surgery because she wrote a letter to Santa asking for a new heart last year. She asked for her brother, too, and he got the needed pacemaker for his enlarged heart. - There may be wars and terrible atrocities in some of those far away countries and some of our loved ones may be there, but here at home there is real beauty -beauty of the Christmas season when we think of others, not just ourselves. This is the time of the year when many of the "needy" even find a way to give to others. This is what the whole thing is about. It is the light in the eyes of the giver and the givee. It is the lightness of heart that shows in the smile, the kind word, the cheery laugh. As you visit your neighbors, your parents, your friends this Christmas season keep the message of Tiny Tim upmost in your thoughts, "Merry Christmas, everyone." |
