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Quote of the day:
The joy of brightening other lives, bearing each others’ burdens, easing others’ loads, and supplanting empty hearts and lives with generous gifts, becomes for us the magic of Christmas. —W. C. Jones
Consider:
This quote reminds me of the following story told by Reamer Kline.
One summer my family gave work to a wandering man, even though we suspected he had a problem with alcohol. In the fall, he left us, but at Christmas a greeting arrived from hundreds of miles away—no personal message, just a signature. Then in the spring he came to see us.
“I've stopped drinking,” he said. “I'm going to a permanent job.” When we thanked him for his Christmas card, he told us that it was the only card he had sent. “I wanted it to say `thank you,' not for the work, but for the respect you gave me. It helped me to begin a new life.”
Then there was the lady in the hospital. She carried the card a friend of ours sent her in a little drawstring bag and during the entire Christmas season she would stop people and say, “Look at my Christmas card. The lady I worked for sent it to me. I'm not forgotten.” We heard later that that card, the only one she received, was the beginning of her recovery from her illness.
Today I approach Christmas by recalling those two lone cards. Each represented a new birth at Christmas and both are a reminder to me that Christmas is always a time for remembering.
Who do you need to remember? Don’t put off the card, email, phone call or whatever form of communication you use, to remember someone today.
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