Dear friends! The Catalog of Good Deeds team starts a new series of personal stories devoted to the Feast of the Nativity. Our brothers and sisters are going to share with you some of their brightest Christmas memories from their childhood and explain how that influenced their own perception of this Great Feast.
There are
lots of people for whom Christmas means a warm family reunion and sweet
memories. You know, those memories that return when we go to the attic or the
basement and open a box filled with old letters, photos, and other little
things that we cherish. My box contains a metal bell with battered ornament, a
wooden reindeer, and a glass ball with snow. These objects bring back my childhood
memories of Christmas.
My family went to a parish, which cooperated with a US-based charity. The charity sent us a parcel with lots of gifts for the most fantastic children's holiday one year. All the gifts were in paper-wrapped boxes. The parcel came a couple of weeks before Christmas, so the colorful skyscrapers made of gift boxes stood in the Sunday School auditorium waiting for the holiday.
I keep
opening that box every year before Christmas and thank again the wise people
who, in spite of all their busyness and hassle of our times, found some time to
send us Christmas in a box.
By Sister Olga (Nichiporuk),
a customer manager, a member of The Catalog of Good Deeds team
CONVERSATION