Hello, thank you so much for joining me for Give Him 15.

The title of today's post is A Christmas to Remember. And I promise you,

you won't forget this one. This was contributed by my friend Cheryl Sacks. I'll tell you more

about her later. It was just before Christmas and we were two months

behind in our mortgage payments. On January 1, our home would go into foreclosure. Hal and I had no

money to buy Christmas gifts for each other or for our five-year-old daughter, Nicole.

When Nicole gave us her Christmas list, it contained only one item,

a pair of blue jeans with pink flowers on the pocket.

I was praying fervently that we'd have money for Christmas and that we would not

lose our home. Yet, I was starting to feel discouraged. The next day, Nicole came home from school

and handed me the school newsletter. The school was asking us to participate in the Christmas

tradition of giving to those in need.

I had a clear sense that we should try to do something for one of the three families the school wanted to help,

even though we ourselves were in desperate need.

The newsletter listed specific needs for each family, simply labeled as

families A, B, and C. I noted that family B needed clothing for a five-year-old girl. Since I wanted to include Nicole in the shopping process,

I decided we should adopt Family B so that she could relate to giving to someone her own age.

The next afternoon, Nicole and I went shopping at Kmart.

As we pushed the basket along together, we looked for some item of clothing that would be

right for a little girl her age.

Soon we came to a rack of girls' jeans, and Nicole spotted a pair with little pink flowers on the back pocket.

Oh, she said excitedly, I just know the little girl will want these.

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