A True Christmas Story

Submitted by: Blue Horse Mukwa Equine Retirement and Rescue Center/Rabiah Seminole
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Email Address: bluehorsemukwa(at)yahoo.com
Date Added: 12/27/2007

As everyone knows, yesterday was Christmas morning. It is the morning that every young person looks forward to. As a rescue, it is like every other morning, the 40 horses that live here have to be fed ,watered and hayed. Their stalls have to be cleaned. I usually start at 4 am almost everyday. As I was walking out to start the morning, I thought about all the folks that were going to get up to a warm cup of coffee and children waking to their toys etc. I have never really had help on Christmas morning , and that is understandable and I really do not expect it…
Yesterday was different, at 7 am a 14 year old young man showed up. He wanted to help me. …He said he told his parents this is what he wanted to do and that he would check out his gifts when he got home if that was alright with them. He said they were going to come back and pick him up at 9 am. I could not believe it. He gave up his Christmas morning and all his gifts were put on hold to help me do chores.
He did one of the hardest jobs, he did the water for all the horses, dragging the hose is not fun or easy,it is heavy,wet and cold. He helped me do shavings, he helped me feed and then pick up buckets.
Victor gave me a very special gift, he reminded me what Christmas is really about, giving of oneself, from the heart.
I just thought this was worth sharing as he is an inspiration to me and someone we can all learn from…
Thank you Victor for making my Christmas day so special.
What he said to me touched my heart…
“i didn’t think you should have to be doing this alone on Christmas morning, no one should be alone on Christmas”.
He then said, “don’t tell anyone I said that”……

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