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Hello friend, this is Max Locato.

Thanks for tuning in.

It's an honor to be with you.

As we study God's word together, may our time uplift and encourage you.

If you could use some hope, I pray you find it here today. Emmanuel, God with us. We say it every year, we sing it in Carols. We read it on greeting cards,

a short phrase that says so much the greatest gift you'll ever receive cannot be

bought or wrapped it's God God, God with us.

I pray great joy for you this season, my friend.

May you have a very Merry Christmas.

There he was nearly 80 years old,

living in a sleepy village outside of Rome, Italy.

His wife had been dead for seven years.

He loved to read.

He had seven cats. His only child was in Afghanistan, and he was very, very much alone.

And the day he decided to do something about it, Georgio Angelo,

put himself up for adoption.

That's right. An octogenarian took out an ad in the most

widely circulated paper in Rome right there in the classified section, he bought enough space to print these words.

79-year-old seeks family in need of a grandfather would bring 500 euros a month to a family willing to adopt him.

Well the ad changed his life. The paper ran a front page article about him and inquiries came

from as far away as New Zealand, New Jersey, and Columbia. The fellow who had more time than he knew what to do with all of a sudden didn't have enough time to handle all the requests for interviews and conversations.

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