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Jim Griffith Columnist
Published Friday, December 23, 2011
Good news: Spirit of giving still lives
Christmas is the season of giving and excites me almost as much now as it did when I was a child.
I understand why for many families the giving is to each other.
However, this year I am pleased to read and hear it's different. Many are thinking of others.
My heart has been touched that one of the nation's leading department store chains reports that anonymous donors are paying off Christmas layaway accounts for gifts impoverished people had hoped to give to their children, but their jobs are gone and with them went all hopes of giving presents during this holiday season.
Providers want no recognition for their generosity, insisting that it is reward enough to think of the smile on the faces of children on Christmas morning.
Now that is the true spirit of Christmas.
This is the reality of hearts reaching out to destitute families in which unemployment has continued for as long as three years.
One of the nationally televised morning shows located a very needy family in which the father and mother are unemployed, lost their home, and have nothing.
Their teenage daughter has an illness that is fatal without expensive treatments costing thousands of dollars, but the parents are penniless.
Producers of the TV show have volunteered to provide all of the family's expenses for a full year, including housing, food, clothing, transportation and all medical expenses.
The spirit of giving is still alive and well, and it shows that even in this hard old world, the milk of human kindness has not soured.
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