The family 2021 Christmas Day plans were all perfectly in place. The rides to pick up Mother and Dad were all set, we had invited Corinne's hairdresser and son to join us, Matt had made the trek home from Philadelphia, and I was thinly slicing potatoes with a mandolin two hours before all our guests were set to arrive. Then, in a blink of an eye my hand slipped off the handle, sliced the end of my finger off, and our Christmas plans were instantly jeopardized. In the hours that followed, I who was to be putting out for everyone else, received the Christmas gift of my family helping me and working together to care for everyone.
Just a few of the many blessings I received included:
- Matthew finding a nearby Urgent Care facility, driving me there and being my caretaker through the painful medical procedure, that fortunately didn't require stitches.
- Corinne contacting everyone and pushing the schedule for dinner back 2 hours.
- Bunny and Tim picking up Dad, which I was set to do, safety bringing him to our house and returning him to the Episcopal Church Home.
- Bob and April picking up Mother, which Bunny and Tim were set to do, bringing her to our house and returning her to River Edge Manor.
- Corinne, Bunny and April taking over all the food and other preparations and doing the kitchen cleanup afterwards.
It was a wonderful experience for me to see my family jumping in to help when the unexpected happened to me and to see them carrying on so graciously. In all those events, I could see in action the words of the Christmas song O Little Town of Bethlehem that say:
How silently, how silently the wondrous gift is given,
So God imparts to human hearts the blessings of His heaven.
No ear may hear his coming, but in this world of sin,
Where meek souls will receive him still, the dear Christ enters in.
I felt that I received some of the blessings of God's heaven through my family members on Christmas Day 2021.
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