Last night we had a visit from a dear friend and her four year old son. Earlier in the week, someone had entered her apartment while she and her boy were outside playing. The intruder stole her son's two wrapped Chanukah gifts and a video camera. Ironically, other items of greater monetary value were left untouched in what must have been a speedy robbery. Our friend, who writes for a wonderful children's website, gocitykids.com, (highly recommended) emailed her colleagues across the country in her anger and upset over the stolen items. Before the sun had set on that same day, the UPS delivery man was at the door with children's gifts. My friend's colleagues from across the country whom she had never met arranged for her boy to receive gifts at Chanukah. Moreover, they sent an email asking our friend to choose from either a selection of video cameras or a virtually endless supply of children's books from Barnes & Noble.
Last night we lit the third candle and sang two blessings. The second one praises G-d who "made miracles in their days (of the Maccabees) and in our days." Who says that miracles great enough to bring tears of joy to our eyes do not still occur everyday?
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