A Phone Call to Change Your Day

Written by: Kate Snyder, Executive Assistant

Today is dreary and bleak and my computer was being dumb and I was just generally feeling a bit grumpy when the phone rang this morning. I glared at it and contemplated not picking it up but then grudgingly answered. It was Phyllis, our case manager at the Food Pantry. She told me that one of the participant’s from the Christmas Gift Program was in her office and wanted to say thank-you in person for the gifts her son had received.

And so I spoke for a few minutes with Adrienne. Her son, Anthony, is 14 and his requests were simple. A sweat shirt. Socks. A watch. A sports book.

Thank you, she said, from the bottom of my heart. I cried when I saw all the gifts that were provided for my son. No one has ever done anything so special for him in his life. Everything he asked for he got and I am just so grateful. I wish I could give a big hug to the person who made his Christmas so wonderful.

And, just like that, it was a good day.