Happy Holidays - a Chain Letter

To this date I have not yet broken
my folowing holiday tradition.
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I hope that this greeting finds you and yours in the very best of spirit and health.
This is the time of year when many will discover their Good, their Spiritual Wealth.
For many others out there this will be a time of despair, 
of hardship and personal grief.
Feelings of depression and loneliness during this most joyous time 
can be very joyless to say the least.
Perhaps you've been one of these people 
or this greeting before you would not be being read by you now.
Along with the Enclo$ed is my simple request:
Continue This Tradition Some How.
Each year at this time search out a family, a family in need of some help.
A family whose Holiday Season will not be so joyously and lovingly felt,
then anonymously send them along with this greeting what ever you then can afford.
It's my hope that you and others will each year send this gift.
Those who receive it will give it forward.
Perhaps one day this practice will pyramid worldwide 
not just once but everyday of the year.
This dog eat dog life most live can be People Helping People.
We can change the world if we all persevere.
People Helping People believe it or not is a concept that many don't know.
A seed has been planted, it's up to you now to nourish and help make it grow.

Copyright © | Year Posted 2009



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Date: 12/9/2011 7:13:00 PM
S.B.t.K-don't know if it's a poem but the sentiment is sure there, thanks man! ;-)
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Date: 12/6/2011 12:48:00 PM
Congrats on your featured poem this week Billy. Love, Carol
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Date: 11/6/2009 4:14:00 AM
This is a beautiful thought, William. There are so many people who not only financial support for emotional support as well during the holidays when suicides always rise. "People Helping People" is the only way to bring about change. Love, Carolyn
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