Day 10: Room at the Inn

“The bliz­zard began Thurs­day night, three days after Christ­mas, last year. In their small adobe ranch house on Route 56, about 40 miles west of Clay­ton, New Mex­ico, five miles from the near­est neigh­bors, the Glover fam­ily was prepared.”

So begins a beau­ti­ful Christ­mas story by Gary Sledge, called “Room at the Inn.” I noticed the story because of its title, of course, but was touched by this account of a fam­ily who wel­comed one stranded trav­eler after another into their home dur­ing a ter­ri­ble snow­storm. The story is part of a Reader’s Digest series enti­tled Real Peo­ple, Real Mir­a­cles. As I con­tinue to read your emails, I am con­vinced of the power of the indi­vid­ual to make a dif­fer­ence, if they are will­ing to make room for some­one in need, like the Glover fam­ily did dur­ing the Christ­mas sea­son of 2006.