Yes, Virginia, there is a St. Nicholas

  • Grownups play­ing Santa for grownups. I assume it’s been going on in other cities as well, but Kansas City has an anony­mous guy who goes around the worst neigh­bor­hoods giv­ing out $100 bills (story here).

    And in the past few years, he’s picked up some helpers who con­tibute as well:

    Secret Santa, who arrived in Kansas City more than 30 years ago with less than $20 in his pocket, also is known around Kansas City as the $100 bill man because that’s his “weapon” of choice. Peo­ple who look down­trod­den or down on their luck are likely to get hit with one or more of the bills near Christmas.

    This Yule­tide, Santa is giv­ing away $75,000, includ­ing about $23,000 doled out on a three-day spin through hurricane-torn Mis­sis­sippi ear­lier this month.

    Up north in St. Joe, the Adopt-a-family pro­gram was bailed out by a cou­ple more anony­mous San­tas. On Mon­day, they still had 349 fam­i­lies that hadn’t been adopted.

    But by that after­noon, an anony­mous donor stepped for­ward and gave a mon­e­tary con­tri­bu­tion that helped take care of about 300 of those fam­i­lies … Tues­day morn­ing, yet another donor who asked to remain anony­mous made a large dona­tion. And it was enough to take care of the remain­ing families.

    It was an amaz­ing coin­ci­dence to me that in my daily read­ing that morn­ing, I had read this from I Tim­o­thy 6:17–19:
    Com­mand those who are rich in this present world not to be arro­gant nor to put their hope in wealth, which is so uncer­tain, but to put their hope in God, who richly pro­vides us with every­thing for our enjoy­ment. Com­mand them to do good, to be rich in good deeds, and to be gen­er­ous and will­ing to share. In this way they will lay up trea­sure for them­selves as a firm foun­da­tion for the com­ing age, so that they may take hold of the life that is truly life.


    Related posts:

    1. Decem­ber 20
    2. Squir­rel update

    December 23rd, 2005 | Grace | 2 Comments |

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  • Kathy 12.23.2005

    Merry Christ­mas to you and your family!

  • Grace

    Thank you! And the same to you. (Sorry I didn’t get this posted ear­lier. For some rea­son, I missed this one. Hope you had a jolly holiday.)

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