“LOVE and CHRISTMAS FEELINGS”How Two Little Boys Taught Me The True Meaning Of Christmas
A wonderful story in our special series—DAYS OF MAGICAL and MIRACULOUS CHRISTMAS STORIES for children of all ages
THE DAWNING LIGHT,Volume 7, # 663 Thursday, December 21, 2023
CHILD PEACE STORIES Section # 15 »»»»» 2 minute Read Time ««««««
Selected, edited and published by Chinmayan…for the child in all of us!
All images in this story courtesy of Pixabay
LOVE AND CHRISTMAS FEELINGS: How Two Little Boys Taught Me The True Meaning of Christmas
By Jack Smith
I didn’t question Timmy, age nine, or his seven-year old brother, Billy about the brown wrapping paper they passed back and forth between them as we visited each store.
Every year at Christmas-time, our service club takes the children from poor families in our town on a personally conducted shopping tour.
I was assigned Timmy and Billy, whose father was out of work.
After giving them the allotted four dollars for each child, we began our trip.
At different stores I made suggestions, but always their answer was a solemn shake of the head, “No thanks.”
Finally, I asked, “Where would you suggest we look?”
“Could we go to a shoe store, sir?” answered Timmy. “We’d like to buy a pair of shoes for our daddy so he can go to work.”
In the shoe store the clerk asked what the boys wanted.
Out came the brown paper.
“We want a pair of work shoes to fit this foot,” they said.
Billy explained that it was a pattern of their daddy’s foot. They had drawn it while he was asleep in a chair.
The clerk held the paper up against the measuring stick, then walked away.
Soon, he came with an open box. “Will these do?” he asked.
Timmy and Billy handled the shoes with great eagerness.
“How much do they cost?” asked Billy.
Then Timmy saw the price on the box.
“They’re $16.05,” he said in dismay. “We only have $8.00 .”
I looked at the clerk, and he cleared his throat.
“That’s the regular price,” he said, “But they are on sale, $3.98 today only.”
Then, with the box of shoes happily in hand, the boys bought gifts for their mother and two little sisters.
Not once did they think of themselves.
The day after Christmas the boy’s father stopped me on the street.
The new shoes were on his feet, gratitude was in his eyes.
“I just thank Jesus for people who care,” he said.
“And I thank Jesus for your two sons,” I replied. “They taught me more about Christmas in one evening that I had learned in a lifetime.”
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AN AWESOME HEART OPENING CHRISTMAS SONG from John Lennon!
This is a sweet music video with John, Yoko and a children’s choir singing John’s profound and powerful plea for the ending of all wars that we need to hear especially during this Christmas of so much heartbreaking wars with innocent families and children victims…
“Happy Xmas” (War Is Over) by John Lennon
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