Wed
Jul 1
2009
Mitch McCartney
Director of Communications and Development
Nebraska Synod, ELCA
I’m not sure if it was this past Christmas or the Christmas before that. We had a giving tree in church and on it were placed the many paper cutout stars, each of which represented a gift that we could go and purchase for a needy child in town. As had been the case every year, stars were disappearing from the tree as church members were claiming them to go and make their gift purchases.
One of the stars on the tree this particular year was for a little boy who had asked for a bicycle for Christmas. That star remained on the tree for most of December, presumably because the size of the young boy’s wish was considerably larger than the simpler, less expensive requests for dolls, toy trucks and stuffed animals.
