Christmas Gift Miracles

Getting the gifts you ask for is great, but the saying “You don’t always get what you want, when you want” still stands true even during the Christmas season the season of miracles. Even when you don’t get what you ask for, you still appreciate the gifts. I experienced this personally when I asked for the book Blood and Chocolate for Christmas but didn’t receive the book until my parents went to Barnes and Noble three days after Christmas. A junior student at Worthington Christian had asked for a jacket that he had been wanting for a while, but the jacket he got on Christmas wasn’t the one he hoped to receive because the item had sold out at the store; but thankfully, later that week they went to Polaris Mall and the student had the chance to purchased the jacket he had desired.

Another student, Daniel Arsenalt, asked for the Xbox 360 game Bioshock, but to his disappointment didn’t receive the game until 3 days after Christmas, when he went to the Easton Mall and bought it. Derek Brown had asked for anything having to do with Japanese culture, sadly on Christmas day Derek didn’t receive any such gift but instead that Friday his friend Mike Queen gave Derek a display Japanese sword.

Worthington Christian student Dan Beale had asked for a Xbox 360 but didn’t actually get the Xbox on Christmas, giving Dan the impression that he would not get the gift but on the following Monday a package arrived containing the Xbox 360 which he had requested. I ask Alex Sheedy, an attendant at my youth group, if there was anything he wanted for Christmas but didn’t receive till after Christmas. His response was “I asked for a new bass and amp for Christmas, but I didn’t get it till my parents took me to Guitar Center to buy both of them myself with all my Christmas money.” Another high school student Trevor Askins asked for a new paintball gun since one of his old ones broke last summer at his friend’s birthday. Unfortunately Trevor didn’t get his paintball gun till the day after, not because of shipping not because the store was out of stock, but simple because his parents thought it would make a better surprise than if they would have given it to him on Christmas Day. Even though you don’t get what you ask for you may get it later or even something better.