Have you ever received a surprise gift, left on your porch that you had no idea who left it? The people in today's story did and you can find their story at the following link along with many others: Christmas Miracles to Give You Hope for the Holidays | Reader's Digest
Enjoy....
Twelve days of Christmas
During the Christmas season in 2012, my husband, Ken, and I came home from church and noticed something on the front porch. We walked over to it and saw it was a basket of goodies wrapped and tied with a beautiful bow. The attached note read “On the first day of Christmas.” We were thrilled someone was thinking of us, especially after losing our daughter in September.
The next night, we checked and sure enough, there was a “second day of Christmas” gift. Try as we might, we couldn’t catch the elf or elves who left those gifts and the ones that followed over the next nine nights.
Finally, on the twelfth night, the elves knocked on our door. Our friend Charlotte Everett and her children Parker and Reese stood there. They were the Christmas angels who made our holiday so very special. They’ll never know how much it meant to us. —Theresa Nordmann, Fairfeld, Illinois, from Country.
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One evening two or three years ago, we had a box show up suddenly on our porch. It wasn't at Christmas time, if I remember right. Still it was unexpected and we had no idea who had put it there. We hadn't heard anyone. No name on it, no way of identifying what was in it. It was indeed a mystery.
Opening it up, we found twelve large boxed pizzas. Who could have put it there? And why?
My husband went down to a neighbors house and the mystery was solved. They too had gotten a box of pizzas. It turned out that another neighbor had a friend that was a truck driver and he was on his way to deliver a load of the pizzas to a store. But he had a problem with his truck and could not get them there on time. To keep them from spoiling before his truck could get back on the road again, he gave the pizzas to our neighbor, who then gave them to people they knew.
No, it wasn't a Christmas gift, but I liked this story because it might give someone an idea to do the same for someone you know this Christmas, in remembrance of Christ's birthday. Someone maybe, that might not have much, or to let someone know that their family is being thought of because of a death that had occurred in the family. Perhaps an elderly person. Or just because...
Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign: The virgin will conceive and give birth to a son, and will call him Immanuel.
Thanks for coming today, Friends. Have a blessed day. Til next time......
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