Yesterday I had a converstaion with a friend that really got me thinking. Being a profonund thinker is not something that I would call one of my strong points. I am a typical man, mainly focused on myself, my family, my immediate circumstances, or what game I watched on the tv last night. But today, I am still focused on the conversation I had yesterday with a co-worker.
She told me of a friend of hers that found out about the realities of Christmas as an 8 year old girl. Her mom was single, an alcolholic, and still is to this day. This friend of hers remembers Christmas Eve, without a Christmas tree, and mom passed out in her bedroom. She sat there praying that there really was a Santa Claus and that he would bring her just one present. She woke up the next morning running out to see if Santa had come. To her disappointment, the living room was baren. No tree, no presents, and no mom. She was still passed out from the night before.
That made me stop and think. How often do these kind of circumstances happen to children that I might know? What is there that I can do to help? What can I do to keep this from happening?
I don't even know who might be in this kind of situation.
But I want to help.
1 comment:
And sometimes they are right under our noses and yet we do not know.
You have a good heart Ben.
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