Hello everyone, I'm posting today with a heavy heart. Something wonderful happened yesterday because of a wonderful person. And because of that person, our family won a wonderful prize. A Family Christmas! After I got off of the phone, I told my 12 year old son. He said "But mom, we don't need it cause we already won a Christmas from your old work!" Wow!! Outa the mouths of babes. I quickly told Dean, he said about the same thing. We will already be given what we need, so why not let another family have a Christmas. I called the lady back and told her we would be declining the prize and why. She called me today to tell me thank you and that she couldn't believe that we would do that. I told her that When we are in need, I'll ask now, but when we have more than we need, we will give. Yesterday we gave and made another family happy that may have need it more than us. Now, this is not to take away from the wonderful thoughtfullness of the person that wanted us to win. We will be forever grateful. Yes it would have been amazing to have two Christmases HOWEVER, we are not a selfish family. I ask and pray for what we need and it is provided to us. We could not see taking 2 gifts so big as to rob another family of joy. I looked up definitions of selfishness just to see if this was us.... here they are... selfish
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: thinking only of oneself
Synonyms: egocentric, egoistic, egoistical, egomaniacal, egotistic, egotistical, greedy*, hoggish, mean, mercenary, miserly, narcissistic, narrow, narrow-minded, out for number one, parsimonious, prejudiced, self-centered, self-indulgent, self-interested, self-seeking, stingy, ungenerous, wrapped up in oneself
I will not and don't raise our children to act or think this way and my 12 year old showed us that yesterday. We are so proud of him! Let me know what you all think, what would you have done? Thanks for reading.
Anna