Early Christmas Blessing

This thanksgiving weekend my grandma, aunt, mom, sister and I decided to go to the holiday Christmas tree festival in Akron. We go about every other year, to look at the beautiful and unique trees that people and companies have decorated and donated to sell to help raise funds for Akron Children’s Hospital. They also have a raffle for about ten trees, each tree is decorated so beautifully and surrounded with other things, for example there was an Ohio State tree with a flat screen tv, xbox 360, season passes, and tons of Ohio State things. Every tree was just surrounded with tons of neat things. There was one in particular that my mom and many others really liked. This tree was the Joanne Fabric tree, the biggest display there. Basically it was a craft room with everything you can think of without the walls. So my grandma bought us tickets to put in the raffle boxes, we each picked our favorite displays and dropped some in each. My mom and I had one ticket left and couldn’t decide which box to put it in, so we dropped it in the Joanne Fabric display box. The winners were to be drawn that night, so we had our phones ready for the call. Take in mind that every year we have gone, we have put in tickets and never have received a call, so we were taking it pretty lightly knowing that a call would be unlikely to happen. As I sat there doing some schoolwork I heard my phone ring and I noticed it was an unfamiliar number, I quickly answered the call and heard a voice ask, “Are you Becky Carlisle?” I answered, “Yes I am!” They then went on and said that I had won the Joanne Fabric Christmas tree display. At this point everyone was in the room trying to hold in their excitement till the phone call ended. I then hung up and revealed the news. My mom about fell over when she heard which one it was. Winning this raffle was definitely a God thing and at a wonderful time to. It is so amazing at how little things can be turned into such joy for a family. I give God all the thanks for this one; it really was an early Christmas blessing.

~Becky C.