This account comes from the winner of the Beehive Bookstore Christmas Jar in December 2011. Just after Christmas, she moved out of state so we are glad she finally found a few minutes to tell us about her experience giving away our store's Christmas Jar--the total of which was $133.85 thanks to all of our generous customers who contributed!
The Christmas Jar
A couple of years ago as it was getting
close to Christmas I casually asked someone at church if they were
all ready for Christmas ~ she replied “We aren’t having
much of a Christmas this year”. I could see that her response had
caught her off guard. She really didn’t want anyone to know that
their family was struggling that year.
Her response haunted me for the next
few days as the Spirit whispered to me that I needed to do something
for them. Not many years before I had been where they were. The Lord
had blessed me with a wonderful job and now I had the ability to help
them.
I enlisted a very close friend to help
me deliver the presents, gift cards and cash that I’d put together
for her family. When I picked her up, her husband said to her ~ “Don’t
forget to go by the bank and “make the deposit” on your
way.” We dropped by the bank on the way and when she came back to
the car she had a $250 dollar deposit to add to the “Christmas
Jar.”
At Christmas time a year later my
friend's father was critically ill & her son (Chris) came all the
way from Maine to California to see his Grandfather, even though
money was very tight for him and he was getting married in less than
a month.
While Chris was in California I won the
“Christmas Jar” at the Beehive Bookstore. I wondered who I should
give it to ~ then the Spirit whispered to me “give the jar to Chris
and his fiancé, along with a copy of the book “The Christmas Jar.”
Tell him the story of our “Christmas Jar” gift the year before.
Along with the Jar& book I included a little note, telling him
the wonderful experience his mother and I had shared the year before
and that I hoped he & his wife could carry on the wonderful
tradition of “The Christmas Jar” in their new family.
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