Friday, January 9, 2009

The Christmas Box - Richard Paul Evans (4 of 5 Stone Angels)

Each year in December the stake presidency from my student ward gives Christmas gifts to everyone.  Last year it was a sand dollar. This year it was a copy of The Christmas Box.  They passed them out in early December but I didn't get to it until now.  Yes...Christmas is over, but I still felt obligated to read the book.

And I'm glad I did.  I saw it as a pleasant epilogue to this Christmas season.  It's simple and straightfoward.  Evans doesn't try to write the next Christmas epic.  He merely tells a story that is designed to remind us about the things that really matter.

So it goes.  An older woman who lives in the Salt Lake City Avenues puts an ad in the paper requesting help taking care of her and her house.  A young family takes her up on the offer.  They soon find out that her primary reason for the invitation was not cooking and cleaning.  She's just looking for a little companionship in the sunset of her life...

Anyway...if you also received a copy of the book from President Plumb, and still haven't read it, it's probably a little late.  But don't worry, you're probably not the only one that didn't get through it.  Just put it on the list for Christmas 2009.  

Merry Belated Christmas!

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Just a comment: You dont have to wait until christmas to read it. It's a good message to read anytime you want to, not just during christmas. That's like reading ghost/horror stories only during halloween. It defies the purpose of them.