December 15, Grandma Hogan and Aunt Kathy

Tonight our very special friends Grandma Carol and Aunt Taffy (Kathy) came for a Holiday Celebration with us and our cousins. They truly are very special people in our lives. We are so blessed by their love and example. Every year they give our family a new Christmas story. This year it was "The Last Straw". It's about a camel who is asked to carry gifts to the new King. It comes to seem that his burden is too great. Then a child pleads with him to carry the proverbial last straw. This load literally brings the proud camel to his knees. Then from the humble manger at tiny hand reaches out and touches the camel's nose. His pain seemed to disappear and he could no longer feel his burden. From that time on there was no burden great or small that the camel would not gladly carry. WE can all learn a magnificent lesson from this humble camel. Christ has indeed "touched" each one of us in one way or another and we should gladly, with JOY carry the burdens we are asked to carry. :)