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A Florida family sent two Christmas letters to relatives and friends a few years ago. They weren't the typical annual reports of milestones.
Dear Friends,
Recently our family had a meeting to discuss how to celebrate Christmas this year. We realized that all of us were struggling financially. Someone suggested just “canceling Christmas.”
Then Nathan piped up with, “You know, we all have too much stuff. We really have everything we need. Let’s find some poor family and make Christmas for them!” Every word rang true. Christmas is a time of bringing Christ’s salvation to birth in our lives and sharing it with others. We remembered the Scripture verse: “Let him who has two coats share with him who has none; and he who has food, let him do likewise” (Luke 3:11).
An idea was born. Peter, a third-year pre-med student, and Betsy, a veteran registered nurse, would represent our family and spend the second week in December caring for the poorest…
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