Ten Christmas Miracles

By The Abbotts

This unique collection of Christmas stories from around the world will delight and touch you with their authenticity and sensitivity. Ten marvellous holiday stories about people as diverse as - a Dutch missionary in an orphanage making a traditional Christmas for her young African boys and girls while rebels raid the region; to a Spanish priest bullied by his superior who has a wonderful adventure in Rome and a young Indian girl given an unexpected Christmas gift! Stories with a touch of magic! This is a book that you can read each Yuletide to 'warm the cockles of the heart!'

• Language: English
• Publisher: The Abbotts
• Release date: Dec 9, 2011
• ISBN: 9781466023574

The Abbotts

Who Are The Abbotts? The Abbotts have self-published over 150 books on many different alien/extraterrestrial, psychic and spiritual subjects including the paranormal, self-improvement, love, relationships and inspiring fiction. They also have another 300 plus books that are being prepared for general release! All of their published books and courses are available through most online book stores, app stores, book retailers and digital libraries. The Abbotts goals for the future includes writing more books and branching out into other forms of mass media including social media, audiobooks, translated books, animation, and films etc. The Abbotts hope that you enjoy their free and low-cost books. And please recommend us to your family, friends and work colleagues. Thank you. Love, Light and hope, The Abbotts Tony J. Abbott and Robyn Abbott. https://www.the-abbotts-books.com/ .

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Ten Christmas Miracles

Stories of Gladness and Hope!

The Abbotts

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Copyright 2011 The Abbotts

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Table of Contents

Introduction

Chapter One - The Miracle of Faith

Chapter Two - The Miracle of Hope

Chapter Three - The Miracle of Charity

Chapter Four - The Miracle of Appreciation

Chapter Five - The Miracle of Trust

Chapter Six - The Miracle of Forgiveness

Chapter Seven - The Miracle of Gratitude

Chapter Eight - The Miracle of Friendship

Chapter Nine - The Miracle of Love

Chapter Ten - The Miracle of Life

Conclusion

About the Authors

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Introduction

Hi, we are The Abbotts, counsellors, healers, writers and paranormal specialists. This book of Ten Christmas Miracles is written to personify the Yuletide season and to fill your heart with wonder and gladness.

We hope that it is a book that you will read each Christmas with joy and appreciation for the wonderful world we live in! We wish you and your’s a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

We hope that you will read this book with an open mind and heart.

The Abbotts

Tony Abbott & Robyn Abbott

Eden Park. 2011.

Chapter One

The Miracle of Faith

Wilomena Van Heusen, Ma to her colleagues and charges sat tiredly in an old, worn, padded chair in the recreational hall of the Western Magongo Home for Orphans and smiled at the debris that surrounded her. Usually she abhorred mess and litter, but today, the 25th December, after a long day of Christmas festivities, she fondly surveyed her small domain and recalled the busy events of the day.

The boys and girls had awoken at sunrise, excited at a break in their usual routine. Today was Christmas day! They chattered and fidgeted eager for the special day’s events to unfold. Fifty-four dark-brown, freshly scrubbed faces turned excitedly to Ma Wilomena, as she strode into the large dormitory. A short, square woman with curly graying hair, in her fifties, dressed in a plain red smock, she had given twenty years of generous service to the orphanage and her loved African children.

One small boy, Horatio smiled a happy, tooth-gapped smile up at her. Big day, today, Ma! Lots of good food and maybe presents! His statement held an anxious unsaid question. Would there be presents for all the orphan boys and girls?

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Ma Wilomena smiled reassuringly at the small boy, I think that you will find, Horatio that there are enough presents for everyone! The boys and girls let out a relieved collective sigh. Now let us all walk in an orderly manner to the dining room and have a good breakfast to set us up for the day!

She gently shepherded the boys and girls into two lines and they left the dormitory and walked across a dusty, red soil quadrangle to a large room that doubled as both a dining room and a chapel, on Sundays and religious holidays.

Later in the morning, the children would help Ma Wilomena and her two Lutheran nun assistants clear away the tables and form an impromptu church for the Christmas Day service. The children had been practicing Christmas carols for the last two weeks and were eager to show off their singing skills to the staff who they regarded as both teachers and family.

A large pot of maize gruel was carried from the small kitchen and ladled out into the bowls of the hungry children. Maize bread and mango jam was heaped on large platters in the centre of the table and each child was given a mug of warm goats’ milk fresh from the orphanage’s small goat herd that were kept in a large, dusty paddock at the rear of the dormitories.

After a short prayer of thanks, the laughing and chattering children soon demolished the simple meal with appreciation. Many of the children had been abandoned by their villages when their parents died of the A.I.D.’s illness. In a region of poverty and arid climate, children were considered both a blessing and a curse. Resources were short and the practical locals had decided that their generosity did not extend to the orphaned offspring of others.

Despite Ma Wilomena’s many attempts to encourage the local villagers to help the orphanage with food donations and physical help in constructing the buildings and maintaining them against the harsh elements, she had continually run up against their steady apathy and resentment.

They would take wages for their work at the orphanage then quickly depart. Voluntary work was seen as demeaning and illogical. Ma Wilomena often thought to herself that In a country so big, their hearts were very little!

Three large cartons had arrived at the isolated orphanage in the last month. One held essentials for the daily running of the orphanage, books, blankets, crockery and donated clothing. As she held up a knitted, wool beanie in a vivid orange and purple design, Sister Magdalena, a young Dutch nun with a lively face laughed at the improbable item. With the temperatures in the high 90’s, warm woolen head ware was the last thing they needed at Western Magongo!

Still, put it in one of the Christmas stockings! sighed Ma Wilomena. No doubt one of the older boys will think it is trendy and smart!

The second carton contained numerous small and cheap presents for the orphanage children. Plastic dolls with fragile, pink arms and legs, decked in violent colours, smiled glazedly out at the busy workers, as they popped them into stockings