LET YOUR LIGHT SHINE June 23, 2008 Issue

The best present I got was something I gave

Joe

Last year my church helped a family in Mexico. I saw how happy and loving the family was as we built them a little house in Tijuana. The Christian Science Society I attend was a sponsor for this mission trip.

When we got to the building site high on a hill in Mexico overlooking California, I met the youngest member of the family, Isaac. He calls himself Zak. I asked him what he got for Christmas. He said, "Nothing, because my parents don't have any money." And so I felt like that was why we were there, so that we could build a house for him and his family for Christmas. It was our Christmas present to them.

This family of six was living in a kind of wooden box on a dirt floor with no windows. They could see the million-dollar homes just across the border, but they lived in a space only the size of my kitchen. I thought this was really bad. So I liked the idea of correcting this unfairness.

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