Christmas comes in all sorts of ways. Today we received the very best gift of all . . . a phone call from a long lost friend. This person is so special to our family but he has been lost for a while now. But today we heard from him and it was like the years had fallen away and all the nightmares of the past several years were finally over. This wonderful person has been to hell and back and is now reaching out to us once again. I sat and cried as Ger talked with him on the phone this morning and all the prayers that have been said for him were finally answered. There is not a gift in this world that could have been as precious as that one phone call. There really are Christmas miracles.
But on the flip side, the next phone call was to tell me that one of my NY cousins was in a car/bus accident yesterday and is in the hospital with a broken pelvis and ankle. I had called her yesterday to wish her and her husband a very Merry Christmas. Dutch told me that Barbara had just gone out to get him some medicine for the cough he has and she would call me back when she got home. This morning Dutch called to say that Barbara had not called back because she didn't come home ! She seems to have pulled out in front of a bus that hit her broadside on the drivers side. It totalled her brand new Yaris which saved her life with all it's air bags. She will be spending Christmas in the hospital and New Years in rehab but at least she is alive and well enough to talk on the phone. Christmas miracle #2 !
And our last gift of the day . . . a phone call from Long Island from a friend and her three kids and grandma Josie. Old friends who we have had the joy of watching from birth to adulthood. Each one got on the phone and talked and talked. It was like being with them and sharing their family joy. We got off the phone an hour later feeling like we had just visited with them here in our home.
It is a great time for miracles and gifts this year. Tomorrow Kent, Kristen and Smith will come to spend Christmas Eve and Christmas Day with us and I know that will be the icing on a wonderful Christmas cake!
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