How nice....I bet Santa had something to do with it...Ho HO HO :thumbup:

Truly, there are angels among us!!!!!!!!!!!!!

My mother always said "what comes around, goes around".

Nice to see good deeds returned.

I truly believe that they are the quilters that has been contributung to this charity is one and the gift to the postal is another, Merry Christmas, everyone.

A wonderful Christmas gift. Everyone in line probably left feeling just as good as you felt.

This goes to show that God is still in control of this world. Merry Christmas Everyone

What a great and giving group.

People aren't all selfish. It never fails to surpise me that the people with the least money to spend will donate to help while the ones with lots don't.
God keep you and keep your good works up. I make prayer shawls and afghans for nursing homes and hospitals. I just finished delivering my items annomostly to all. I also made 30 hats for the chemo patients. I don't have much but i pray for the item i make to help heal and then have the nurses pass them out to the ones they feel need them most.

That is great - there are a lot of caring people in the world. Bless you and everyone who helped pay for the postage.

Thank you so much for sharing this! I really needed to hear about some REAL, loving and Godly people in this world!

I will try to make This long story short. My daughter who has thrown her child away twice, and begged me to take her in both times, could not handle her daughter doing so well under my husbands and my care (She was making A's and B's ....could be that she was not being told daily how stupid she was and that she was from bad seed and would never amount to anything, not only by the stepfather, but by her biological mother as well), and she had made varsity cheerleader. She was NEVER cinderalla in my husband's and my home. Britani was denied contact with her half siblings, and Brad the stepfather told her she could never have a relationship with him or his family until she paid them back the $10,000 she had cost them (My husband and I were supporting Britani without once cent support from them, and we finally took them to court for custody when they claimed Britani on income tax. Britani wants her mothers love and approval so desperately she has basically sold her soul.....upon her mother's instructions she shoved me, slugged me and broke my jaw and ran off.....BUT her mother would not allow her to come back home, and did not want her in the Argyle area going to school because she was such an embarrasment to them and didn't not want her nor Brad's other children embarrased because of her.....she has not only dropped out of school her senior year, she is now pregnant and living with the babies father's mother and stepfather....and tells me that she can not have a relationship with me, because if she does her mother will not speak to her............................
Sorry this is so long, but I sit her crying because I really really did need to know that there are real, caring good people out there who not only care about people, but care about complete total strangers they have never seen, nor most likely never will.........Thank you for bringing me out of my darkness and unbelief in people. Your testimonial has been the greatest gift I have received this Christmas! Thank YOU for being such a generous loving person to those children who need the touch of kindness and love so desperately.... for being a true living example of God's love, and for all those strangers, who loved and cared enough to give wings to deliver that love and kindness, not only to those children, but to those of us who had lost faith and confidence in mankind!

May God bless you and those people and return to you the joy you have shared so freely!

aww, this just warms the cockles of my mousie heart, quilt4u!
I just walk on air, after something like this happens! :D
There are a lot of ppl out there that would love to help kids and those truly in need, out, but they don't know how, or who to trust.
You blessed these ppl by their being able to do this. I bet they stepped lightly all day too! :-D

Ooh WOW!!! What a beautiful gesture!!!!!!!

I love it when paying it forward really works. God Bless to all the Angels out there.

Texasannie,

Sounds like you have been through a lot. I am glad that a wonderful story like this came along to help you out of your troubles. There are great people out there, loving, caring and giving. I know this from personal experience...and I know that you and your hubby are that kind of folks too, from hearing what you have been through..all for the love of your GD. Please try to remember that you have given all you can give and that you would be continuing to do so if outside forces had not acted to stop you. Don't give up on your young GD, one of these days she will realize what true love is and when she does, she will need you even more.

God Bless.

Thank you Nursie76 for all your kind words and encouragement. I will always love that child with
all I am and I will be here for her again when she
is ready. I am just so grateful to all you wonderful GOOD and CARING people....my eyes are open again, I am blessed with good people and they ARE FOR REAL!! Thanks, and please please pray for my Lil' Bit of Heaven Miss Brit!! Thanks again, and please be blessed as well!

How special is that!!! I think it was a blessing!!

TexasAnnie, I completely agree with Nursie76. What you did was a wonderful thing for your grand-daughter and she won't realize it until well into adulthood. You did the right thing.

As for paying it forward, what a wonderful gesture for those waiting in line to do for you! Very heartwarming.

Thank you Quilter7x,.....my payforward will be her succeeding in the goals she had originally set for herself...a college degree, a home of her own......she is a very good person underneath all that hurt.....now I need to turn my hurt inoto helping those rejected children/young women/men (of course anonomously, because I get too passionate and too attached) who have no one! Not as a replacement but as a means of reminding them that life is good, and good people are a part of life! Thank you for your words of encouragement! You all are totally awesome.

Loving someone unconditionally, especially when they don't deserve it (don't take that the wrong way, please), is one of the hardest and the most rewarding things we can do.

Forgiveness is another very rewarding aspect of our lives. We may not forget, but in time, and with God's help, we can forgive.

Texasannie, I pray you hang in there. There will be a day when she comes back to you and you need to be ready with that unconditional love, especially when it seems no one else will be.

Very wise advise.....you are so right on. Thank you.

I can not turn my back on her. I am in counseling because I keep giving and giving because I can not turn off the love, even when I'm hurt so deeply. I just need to learn to expect resepect and honor, to accompany the unconditional love I have for her. Unconditional love does not mean abuse, and this is what I need to learn. It's not that I don't try to be kind to her, it is understanding and accepting she can not accept my love at this time?

Thank you so much for your words....reminds me I need to stay focused!

You put into words exactly what I was thinking.

And what we all much remember that healing after pain and abuse is a slow process but, in that process there is always God loving us through the healing.

Texasannie My prayers and hugs to you. I know waht you are going threw. My daughter is the same way with my GS. My GS is now with my sister. I was also to see my DD and GS at Christmas. But they all changed thier plans and left us out. So no GS. But I'm not giving up.

that just made me think this life is made up of good people

Thank you. It gets to the point all we can do is give up and Let God. I will be praying for you and your GS and dD as well.....

Quit4u....that really hurts......but I hold on to the fact that some day they as well as myself will heal and love will overcome....its hard especially at Christmas.... I am so very sorry...you do understand the pain! But like I said, I will include you all in my prayers as well!