Making the holidays even better for someone who works in your local community, translated…
During the hours of sunset, came the notes of a recorder, a Christmas tune: “We Wish You a Merry Christmas/We Wish You a Merry Christmas/ And a Happy New Year”, although the notes weren’t connected and the person sang off key, but, it’d, warmed up this, slightly cold winter.
Last year, I was the chairman of my community, and wanted to give everybody a different Christmas and I’d set up this, “Love & Blessings” Caroling, after several singing training sessions, and, assessed the kids’ outfits, on Christmas Eve, we took the kids in the community, to sing in front of the complexes, to give out the gifts, to offer the warmth of the blessings of the season. But, those residents who’d not planned to join in, all walked out of their houses, and joined the troupe, in the end, we’d all circled around the gates of our community, thanked the security guard for keeping us all safe, and that warmth flowed throughout the community.
making the holidays warmer for someone…not my photograph…
As I thought that my mission was accomplished, readied to change out of my festive outfit and was about to rest, my husband had asked the board members to drive the kids twenty minutes, to the elderly woman who’d helped cleaned up the building, to offer her some Christmas blessings too. The elderly lived in a small cramped up alley, we’d all held hands, walked slowly, but, we were all, very excited.
The elderly who’d answered the door as we’d rung her bell, was thrilled, nearly twenty adults and children, with the reindeer antlers, smiling faces, yellowed lamps, along with the children’s voices singing, it’d made the elderly woman cry, moved beyond words of verbal expressions. We’d hugged her tight, thanked her for cleaning up our community, and, this blessing’s activities ended, perfectly.
On the way home, my husband said satisfactorily, “Other than being joyous for Christmas, we’d needed to teach the kids to be thankful, and to pass along the blessings to others, this, was a grand opportunity for it tonight, and, we’d done it!”, I’d bowed down to him, this had, rang true to the values of “Making the community more friendly and beautiful”.
not my photograph…
So here, the adults led by example, to teach the children to spread some of that Christmas cheers to someone who worked in the community regularly, and, it’d, moved the elderly woman who’d helped cleaned up the living environment, because although it is her job, but, knowing that her hard work is appreciated by the community is very important.
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