Monday, July 5, 2010
Following up on a Christmas Jar!!!
Wanted to share this with you...The family we gave our jar to was beyond appreciative---a grandmother who is raising her two granddaughters. Her daughter died of a drug overdose and the father is not allowed to raise the girls because he has sexually abused them. The grandmother has a very small house and no car. She makes money mopping the church floors and helping others clean their homes. This woman has worked hard her whole life and gives everything to these little girls. When the girls received their jar on Christmas Day their grandmother told them that angels had left the jar just for them (she actually caught us leaving it on her doorstep late Christmas Eve). All three of them decided to save the jar for summer so they had money to have a little fun (the town is small, there is not much to do, and there's no car to take them places). So, they ended up buying a small swimming pool with the jar money. The grandmother told my mom that it's been the best summer the girls have had in their lives. She can't get them out of the pool to get them ready for bed. Makes my heart sing.
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