What are some small things we can do to help uplift strangers who are alone for the holidays?
Christmas day really can be a lonely place for elderly people who may be living in your neighborhood. One year the neighbor kids brought their Christmas presents over to show us and that was a bright spot to our day. Another year they shoveled snow off our sidewalks. It’s the human contract that is important more than any gift you could bring although a plate of holiday foods or cookies, etc., is appreciated too. For the homeless people, small gifts of warm gloves, hats, socks, or scarfs, etc. do mean a lot. You can also go to a dollar store and pick up things like lip gross, combs, tooth brushes and paste, hand cream, etc., to hand out to the homeless. I know someone who saves up all those free toys their kids get with fast food and they give them (unopened) to a battered women’s shelter that also takes in kids.
