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As children, all of us believed in Santa. Christmas meant gorging on cookies, milk, and pudding, opening the gifts with gusto, and listening to grandpa’s stories around the Christmas tree. However, with time, innocence is replaced by skepticism. Let us keep Christmas beautiful without a thought of greed, that it might live forevermore to fill our every need, that it shall not be just a day, but last a lifetime through.
Santa is real...
It was only a few days before Christmas. The tree was aglow and presents were wrapped with ribbons and bows. Five-year-old Robby had been to see Santa Claus and asked for only one thing that year: a tabletop hockey game.
Traditionally, he and his mother went to her parents’ home on Christmas Eve to spend Christmas day with the grandparents.
Passing time until that day, Robby and his friend were playing with dinky cars, sliding them up and down his apartment hallway. One of the cars ricochetted into a bedroom and under Robby’s mother’s bed. As he went to retreive the car, Robby found a startling sight — a tabletop hockey game. Running hysterically out of the bedroom almost in tears, he cried: “Mommy, you have to take this back to the store. I already asked Santa for a hockey game. What will I do with two?”
Thinking quickly, mom responded, “Lets call Grandpa. He’ll know what to do. He can probably return it to the store for me. He works in the same mall where I got it.”
She telephoned her father at work and asked him to take the hockey game back where it was bought. She told him that they were presently on their way with the game in tow.
Grandpa didn't have a clue what was going on, but decided to go along with whatever was happening. The game had to get to their house somehow for Christmas morning anyway and what a perfect way to get it there. It was like a miracle in the making.
On Christmas morning, when Robby saw the hockey game underneath the tree, he jumped for joy, and professed: “See, I told you Santa would bring me a hockey game. And look, it's exactly like the one you bought me!” n
Everyone you meet has a story to tell.
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