Christmas Traditions
By Jordan Smith
Rough Draft
Around the holiday season, the cities are filled with obsessed shoppers looking for the right gift, endless amounts of sales promoting the next big thing, and people forgetting the real meaning of this holiday. Yet, in this small town of Meeker, Christmas is more than just gifts, or whether you were on the naughty or nice list. Christmas in this small, one horse town is about family, and giving instead of getting.
Many people in the cities, or even just towns a smudge bigger than Meeker, are too preoccupied with what they are going to write on their wish list to Santa instead of giving to those less fortunate. Thankfully, folks in Meeker are willing to bend over backwards for others. Several churches open up to the town of Meeker and are enthusiastic about helping those that need it the most around this time of year.
The Meeker United Methodist Church puts on the Giving Tree every year, and supplies many families with the gifts they can’t afford, the clothes they need to stay warm and even providing food so they can have a feast to celebrate the holidays with.
The Giving Tree is a great opportunity for several individuals to give their time to the people that need it the most. The Meeker United Methodist Church Youth Group helps hand out baskets of food and supply possessions o hand out to everyone in the community. This goes to show that not all teenagers are as uninvolved in the community as they are labeled to be. Not only are these teenagers helping give others a wonderful Christmas, but they are taking time from their own break and time out of their schedule to make Christmas just as special to everyone else as it is for them.
Along with the Giving Tree, there are boxes fun of brand new presents at this church that are shipped overseas to kids that barely have enough to eat each day. This is another opportunity that people in the town of Meeker have to be selfless and give back to those that deserve, especially around this time of year. Christmas is a special time, not only because of the presents and being able to take a few weeks off of school, but this is the time that many can show the side of them that is not shown all the time.
This year for Christmas should be just as special as every other year and everyone can make it that way with just one selfless act of kindness.
