MAYBE CHRISTMAS PERHAPS...MEANS A LITTLE BIT MORE!

"...Three thousand feet up! Up the side of Mt. Crumpit,He rode with his load to the tiptop to dump it!“Pooh-Pooh to the Whos!” he was grinch-ish-ly humming.“They’re finding out now that no Christmas is coming!“They’re just waking up! I know just what they’ll do!“Their mouths will hang open a minute or two“Then the Whos down in Who-ville will all cry Boo-Hoo!
“That’s a noise, “grinned the Grinch,“That I simply MUST hear!”So he paused. And the Grinch put his hand to his ear. And he did hear a sound rising over the snow.It started in low. Then it started to grow …
But the sound wasn’t sad!Why, this sound sounded merry!It couldn’t be so!But it WAS merry! VERY!
He stared down at Who-ville!The Grinch popped his eyes!Then he shook!What he saw was a shocking surprise!
Every Who down in Who-ville, the tall and the small,Was singing! Without any presents at all!He HADN‘T stopped Christmas from coming!IT CAME!Somehow or other, it came just the same!
And the Grinch, with his grinch-feet ice-cold in the snow,Stood puzzling and puzzling: “How could it be so?”“It came without ribbons! It came without tags!“It came without packages, boxes or bags!”
And he puzzled three hours, till his puzzler was sore.Then the Grinch thought of something he hadn’t before!“Maybe Christmas,” he thought, “doesn’t come from a store.Maybe Christmas … perhaps … means a little bit more!”

(Dr. Suess, How the Grinch Stole Christmas, New York: Random House, 1957.)

I love this passage from one of our favorite Christmas stories....but having said that, I want to thank all those good people who know that for some, Christmas CAN come from a store....

There is a desire is to help the poor and needy. This is how many good people fill their Christmas with love. I wanted to thank all those who have helped this year!

In the last few weeks, we have had phone calls from so many people asking if we could find them a family in need that they could do Christmas for. We had one young family purchase 30 pair of Nike shoes to donate. We had a widow drop by several wallmart gift cards, and several other people just show up with gift cards. We get gift cards in the mail to donate aand we don't know who they come from.

They thank us, but we quickly tell them it wasn't us who donated it, so they thank God.

So thanks to those of you who were able to give in this difficult year to help the poor and needy!

Matthew 25:40

"...Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethern, ye have done it unto me. "