This Is What Christmas Is All About

--by rorris02, posted Dec 25, 2009

You never know where kindness from strangers may appear. The snow started at 4:30 Friday evening and didn’t stop until Saturday evening. Many parts of the northeast received up to 20 inches. I had been snowed in for over 24 hours and was starting to feel cabin fever strike. The shoveling started around 11:00 Sunday morning and after an hour I felt like I had just started. I suffer from scoliosis and was starting to feel the pain so I decided to go in for a bit.

Around 2:30 I threw back on my winter gear and headed back outside, thinking to myself: “This is going to take forever and boy am I’m going to be feeling it tomorrow!” In the distance I saw a man riding a small John Deere tracker and attached to the back a snow plow. He stopped and offered to plow the remaining driveway making sure I knew that “it won’t cost ya a thing.” As I continued to shovel and pathway from the door to the driveway, he worked diligently making sure I could get my car out.

As he pulled off waving and wishing me a Merry Christmas I felt my eyes fill with tears. That’s what Christmas is all about!

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Posted by rorris02
Dec 25, 2009
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heartofflesh wrote: Life is all about sharing .....not only during Christmas... have a wonderful Christmas and a glorious New Year my friend! From India with love and Smiles!

grapes wrote: No Doubt!!
what an incredible and powerful experience of kindness..!!
When you do kindness, it comes back to you too!!

iferlamb wrote: How very nice!
smiles...

hotcocoa wrote: That's nice :)

Thanks for sharing and merry christmas! :d

warmth wrote: Great to read about christmas kindness :) thank u for sharing hope u r feeling all right now

Aurelia wrote: The true spirit of christmas. Good neighbors on a snowy day. Ha ha ha~ now don't forget to invite him over for a bbq come summertime!

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