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Christmas Package
Submitted by: Tamara B.
Mt. Pleasant, UtahI am an entertainer, singer and mobile DJ. As well as a mother of four who has witnessed many miracles.
It was 2007 and I was at an all time low. I had run into a brick wall creatively and began to believe that I was washed up as an entertainer. A career that I had made successful for 16 years now eluded me. A personality used to lights and people, suddenly I found myself working alone in the shoe department of a major chain department store. Where once I was used to over $50.00 per hour I now made a meagre $6.95 per hour and my husband was disabled with no income coming from him. Needless to say it was hard times at our home.
I was sad and had been focusing on our new bad circumstances, when along in October the memory of “The Secret” made its way into my mind. I thought “what the heck, if nothing comes of it but a better frame of mind, even that is a plus.” With that new conviction, every time negative thoughts crept in I counteracted them with a picture of two hands descending from heaven holding a beautiful Christmas package tied up with a bright red bow. Each time I focused on that thought, I began to grow in excitement and forget the fact that I had absolutely no Christmas money for my daughter.
I couldn’t help, with each replay of that thought, but become almost joyous. Fast forward now to Christmas week, the 22nd to be exact. Still no gifts under my tree for my sweet girl but I came to terms with it all and had mastered initiating the joyful feeling more and more. I was at work that day when a department manager told me to go to the office. In the office was a basket full of presents and a card signed “With Love, from your Christmas Angels.”
Teary eyed and overwrought with the feeling of joy and love I took the gifts home to my daughter. I remember thinking that even if they weren’t much, they were at least something for her to open on Christmas morning. I was so grateful. The card said ‘Open Now’ because it held $500.00 cash! I started to cry. That evening as well, a church group came over with a $150.00 gift certificate for food.
Christmas morning revealed that my Angels had not shopped cheaply either. My daughter received gifts like an ipod nano and JVC dock, a beautiful coat and a rather pricey scrap booking kit. I love those secret angels and to this day they have remained a secret although I can almost picture their loving faces. I also believe that had I chose to keep thinking negatively that the story would have turned out much differently. Oh, and I am recently back to singing and making money again! How beautiful life can be even (or especially) in our hour of learning. And how beautiful human beings can be when they give so freely. I pray that My Angels have been blessed by this.