Our Difficult Christmas.

[secondtimearound]

It was many years ago, and wife and I had two small children. Wife did not work so that she could watch them both, while the

younger was home all day, and the older went to school. We did not have much extra money as only I worked.

The year I am remembering, we went to a fine church, and we loved the Lord as we do now, but as Christmas came close on, we did not

have any money to buy a tree to honor the Savior. We prayed!

 

I looked all through my desk, and finally I found an envelope with a $50 bill in it. It was to pay a specific bill, but I remembered

that we had already paid that bill some time ago. That money was ours! Christmas was only about 2-3 days away. Could we find

a late selling tree? The next day first thing I found a tree lot, and got one cheap, because the time was so close. Then

we decorated it. Then the next day we brought the kids into town, and went to a discount store, where we got small turkey dinners

for all of us. The thing was... fifty dollars would buy more in those days than it would now.

 

Then we brought the kids to a movie. It was about a young boy who wanted an air rifle for Christmas.

They loved it, and even we parents enjoyed it! At the end we still had about fifty cents left.

For Christmas my parents gave us close to a hundred dollars, and we survived until Spring.

Thank you, Jesus for our best Christmas memory!

Edited December 20, 2020 by secondtimearound

[NotAllThere]

I like your testimony. But given the way it is broken up weirdly into paragraphs - did you copy paste from elsewhere? It makes it hard to read.

I hope you moved on since then. I still have a tree every year. It's tradition. But it isn't to honour the saviour. It's a tradition that started in the 17th or 18th century in Germany and has thoroughly pagan roots. Although Larry Norman once sang:

I was thinking just last Sunday
That the world confuses one day
With the rest throughout the year
And that one day is the day that a child appeared

Just a baby in a manger
But the room was filled with strangers
And the star hung in the sky
Oh like an angel on the day that a child appeared
Little children, please remember
Why we celebrate December

It's much more than Santa Claus
But you're right about the gift and tree
A gift of life at Calvary
I was thinking just last Sunday
How the world confuses one day
With the rest throughout the year
And that day is the day that a child appeared

Edited December 21, 2020 by NotAllThere