{"id":15518,"date":"2026-03-10T11:47:14","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T11:47:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gpbookstore.org\/articles\/uncategorized\/mysterious-holiday-blessings\/"},"modified":"2026-04-10T05:59:40","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T05:59:40","slug":"mysterious-holiday-blessings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gpbookstore.org\/articles\/angels-and-miracles\/miracles\/gods-grace\/mysterious-holiday-blessings\/","title":{"rendered":"Mysterious Holiday Blessings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>\u200bEdward Grinnan, Editorial Director<\/strong><br \/>\n<a class=\"colorbox\" href=\"https:\/\/d2zfkpu1r6ym98.cloudfront.net\/sites\/guideposts.org\/files\/edward_grinnan_large.jpg\" rel=\"gallery\" title=\"Edward with his mom and wife Julee\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"242\" height=\"288\" class=\" alignright size-full wp-image-26031\" alt=\"Edward with his mom and his wife, Julee\" hspace=\"15\" src=\"https:\/\/gpbookstore.org\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/edward_grinnan_thumbnail3.jpg\" style=\"width: 242px; height: 288px; float: right;\" \/><\/a>Christmas 1999, my family took the festivities to Mom, since her Alzheimer\u2019s had gotten so bad. On the car ride over to her care facility, I asked my wife, \u201cDoes Mom even know it\u2019s Christmas?\u201d It\u2019d been a while since I\u2019d last seen my feisty, independent mom. She\u2019d barely talked the past few months. We arrived at Mom\u2019s and helped her open her gifts.<\/p>\n<p>She paid attention to just one. A \u201c12 Days of Christmas\u201d pop-up book from my cousin. Mom turned to the first page and, to our great surprise, began to read. The words were a bit off\u2014three French hens turned into three French houses\u2014but she kept going. She faltered at Day 10.<\/p>\n<p>I jumped in to help her finish. Mom sat up straight in her wheelchair, her eyes flashing. \u201cAre you going to let me do this by myself?\u201d she snapped. For a minute, I saw my <em style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">mom <\/em>again. Right then, we all knew it was Christmas.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gpbookstore.org\/articles\/bible_verse\/psalm-11989\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>READ MORE: THE FIREHOUSE CHRISTMAS MIRACLE<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Susan Downs, Contributing Editor<\/strong><br \/>\nOn December 19, 1984, our soon-to-be adopted baby girl, Kimberly, was scheduled to arrive at JFK Airport from South Korea. I woke up a bundle of nerves. My husband and I had encountered one obstacle after another in the adoption process. Some days I wondered if we were really meant to be Kimberly\u2019s parents.<\/p>\n<p>I opened my devotional book, hoping to find peace. I was a contributor to the book and the devotional for the day happened to be one I\u2019d written almost two years earlier, long before we ever considered adoption. It described a newspaper account of a family who welcomed a long-awaited child from Asia at the airport\u2014just as my husband and I were about to do! Nerves gone! I couldn\u2019t wait for Kimberly\u2019s first Christmas with us.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Adam Hunter, Managing Editor<\/strong><br \/>\nThe first night of Hanukkah, my fianc\u00e9e and I had no menorah to light. I went to the address I\u2019d found of a Judaica shop. It was now a gym. No menorahs, just muscle heads. Dejected, I headed for the subway. Soft light spilling from the windows of a Jewish women\u2019s college caught my eye. Inside were tables filled with lit menorahs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHappy Hanukkah!\u201d said a student standing outside. I asked if she knew where I might find a menorah. \u201cOurs are all lit, but they sell them at the pharmacy on the corner,\u201d she told me.<\/p>\n<p>I ran into the pharmacy. Searched fruitlessly. Then, to my surprise, the student walked in and spoke to a stock boy. \u201cThe Jewish Christmas tree thing? Aisle ten,\u201d he answered.<\/p>\n<p>The student spotted me. \u201cThought you still might need some help.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In the back we found a solitary menorah. My fianc\u00e9e and I lit it that night. My brother-in-law uses it today. A small miracle, to help us celebrate a big one.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gpbookstore.org\/articles\/post\/the-miracle-of-the-missing-maltese-terrier\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>READ MORE: THE MIRACLE OF THE MISSING MALTESE TERRIER<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Diana Aydin, Editor<\/strong><br \/>\n<a class=\"colorbox\" href=\"https:\/\/d2zfkpu1r6ym98.cloudfront.net\/sites\/guideposts.org\/files\/diana_aydin_large.jpg\" rel=\"gallery\" title=\"Young Diana, kicking up her heels\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"214\" height=\"216\" class=\" alignright size-full wp-image-26032\" alt=\"Young Diana, kicking up her heels\" hspace=\"15\" src=\"https:\/\/gpbookstore.org\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/diana_aydin_thumbnail3.jpg\" style=\"width: 214px; height: 216px; float: right;\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gpbookstore.org\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/diana_aydin_thumbnail3.jpg 214w, https:\/\/gpbookstore.org\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/diana_aydin_thumbnail3-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 214px) 100vw, 214px\" \/><\/a>\u2019Twas a few days before Christmas. I was one and a half. My sisters were asleep and I was sitting with my parents by the Christmas tree. \u201cWhat do you want from Santa this year?\u201d my dad asked my mom. She didn\u2019t have to think too hard. I\u2019d been born with a dislocated hip, and for the first year of my life I\u2019d worn a cast from my knees to my waist. The cast had come off in October, but I still hadn\u2019t taken those first steps.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI just want Diana to walk,\u201d my mom said. At those words, I got up from my mom\u2019s lap and walked over to my dad. It was, as my mom reminds me every December, her favorite Christmas gift.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Rick Hamlin, Senior Contributing Editor<\/strong><br \/>\nLast September, I spent two weeks in the hospital with a serious lung infection. Singing was my passion. After the illness, though, my voice was not tuneful at all. I\u2019d promised our readers I\u2019d sing a song a day during Advent. That seemed unlikely now.<\/p>\n<p>At home, while I recovered, I sat at the piano every day to practice \u201cImmanuel,\u201d by Michael Card, a song that the composer Alisa Bair and I planned to record in November, but my voice was still scratchy and hollow. It finally came time for Alisa and me to meet. She played a few chords on the piano. I opened my mouth, expecting to croak like a frog. But no. It was as if my voice had walked back into the room. I could sing again!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bEdward Grinnan, Editorial Director Christmas 1999, my family took the festivities to Mom, since her Alzheimer\u2019s had gotten so bad. On the car ride over to her care facility, I asked my wife, \u201cDoes Mom even know it\u2019s Christmas?\u201d It\u2019d been a while since I\u2019d last seen my feisty, independent mom. 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