Dear Editor:
Recently, Nina Hendricks and I experienced the real Spirit of Christmas.
We always begin at the Dollar Tree for our annual shopping trip. We shop for veterans residing in the local nursing homes in Henderson and Kaufman counties.
Other members of our Sarah Maples Chapter NSDAR visit and deliver the gifts that Nina will put together. While we were shopping; lo and behold two Christmas Angels were in the same Dollar Tree. They are very difficult to recognize because they look like you and me. Nina and I each had baskets brimming over the top with all sorts of ‘goodies’. We try to get the most for the money donated to us from our members and they are always very generous. One such Christmas Angel walked beside us while we were deciding what to buy and she asked, “Why are you all buying so much of the same product?” We explained our mission and that we were buying for 44 veteran’s that included five ladies. She looked at our baskets and quietly handed us $40.
I asked for her name and how I could send her a ‘Thank You’. However, this Christmas Angel didn’t want a formal ‘Thank You’; verbal thanks were enough. After the shopping finished at the Dollar Tree, Nina and I decided we had all we could gather there, so we were going to Walmart to purchase socks for the men. We had already bought some soft fuzzy ones for the ladies. Also, the lady veterans have been promised prayer shawls from the First Presbyterian Church in Mabank. Therefore, we thought the ladies were fixed up
Fast Forward now to the check out with the two brimming baskets. While Nina was unloading the purchases and filling out the needed paperwork, folks would walk by our line and shake their head. Of course, I wouldn’t want to wait behind someone with all that ‘stuff’. One person looked, walked on and came back for another look. I mentioned that she might want to go to another cashier. This sweet person came back again; Angels appear when and where they are least expected. However, I did recognize her as a Christmas Angel when she quietly placed a $100 bill in my hand and said, “I want you to have this.” Her generosity brought tears to my eyes for the second time while shopping for our veterans. I asked, how I could thank her and her reply was, “It isn’t necessary.”
Although these two Christmas Angels shall remain anonymous, I wanted to publicly thank them for showing Nina and me that the Spirit of Christmas is alive and well and living in the area of Cedar Creek Lake. I feel certain Christmas Angels are every where, they are just difficult to recognize as they go about their business of caring, showing love and compassion quietly for their fellow man.
God bless them and God Bless America.
Merry Christmas and a Healthy, Happy 2016 New Year,
Geneice Morris