Christmas Wish

 

Every morning i wake up to johnjay and rich on 104.7! they have a great banter and it wakes me up a little bit happier. but during the month of December every year i wake up with tears and chills and a sense of warming in my heart. every year these guys do an amazing thing called Christmas wish: where people can write letters about someone they know who is in need. and then these guys pick a letter, have that person read it over the air while whomever they are reading about listens…normally sobbing!

the letters normally go something like this one i love so much…

i am writing you about my friend Tim. Tim is a single dad with three kids living in a two bedroom apartment. he recently lost his job and has been working three jobs to make up for his one old job, his wife died just last year and 2 months ago he was diagnosed with some sort of awful disease. his heat has been turned off and he has been boiling water for the kids to take baths. the three kids sleep in his bed and he sleeps on the floor! please help him at this time of year where he wont have a Christmas. (yes all stories are like this) then johnjay and rich say we are going to grant this Christmas wish. buying them beds for the kids to sleep in hundreds of dollars in groceries, a Christmas tree with all the trimmings. coats and clothes for everyone, toys and gifts too. payment of passed electric bills and even mortgage payments. and the list goes on and on. I've heard them give hd TVs, strollers, play stations, days at the salon ect. by now everyone is bawling! the friend who wrote the letter, the recipient and me the listener. then the radio guys say is it ok if we deliver that right now cause we are on your front doorstep?!  and then the Christmas songs start playing…like “have yourself a merry little Christmas” and it is now officially time for me to get up cause now I'm late for work!

how blessed we are and how grateful i am for the warm house i have to live in and the job i have. the family whom i love so much and the friends i get to share this season with as well as all year long! really if you get a chance…you should listen…it will change your mood for everyday! :)