The empty Christmas stocking

This touched my heart and I felt that I had to Reblog this. I hope that all of you reblog this because this is what chrismas is really about, Hope Faith and Love.

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Christmas stockings

The boy of seven awakes excited that Christmas has finally come! It is 5:30 a.m. His parents are still in bed.

He knocks at their bedroom door. No answer. He calls out to them. “Mom, dad, it’s time to wake up! It’s Christmas!” Both parents are fast asleep. They have been busy wrapping up Christmas presents until 2;30 a.m. They didn’t want their child to know what Christmas presents he is getting. No matter where they hid the few presents they could give him, Bobby always found them. They were determined this year that he would not find his presents. They took them to their neighbour’s home and hid them there.

Late in the evening when Bobby was sleeping they snuck over with the two presents he would receive Christmas morning. They could only afford two because the husband was diagnosed with cancer and couldn’t work. His company where he…

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