Holiday Gift

The greatest gift I ever got, came with a year that definitely was not. Health costs and a scam had emptied everyone’s pot. The tree was bare with nothing to hand out… And my son had to work thru the Christmas Holliday, we all sought. We wished him home but he had to work if he was to eat. And for several years he had not wanted, with us to be. But this year had taught him we were better than he had perceived. And he wanted to come home to hold and be hugged, you see. At the last moment he got the Christmas Day off. Our gift to him was the price of gas and food on the four-hour trip back. But his gift to us… you see was the greatest of all… For he wanted to come home and simply be with us all. Twenty-four hours minus 8 hours on the trip. Dinner wasn’t much but it was all we could give. But no one noticed as everyone talked… It truly was the greatest holiday present of them all… that we ever got. Thank you God... your gift to us wasn't lost.