Broken Glasses and the Christmas Spirit

Every year as Christmas approaches, I pray that we will find and have those special experiences that bring the true spirit of Christmas into our heart and mind. Sometimes it is super easy to find them and sometimes they are more elusive.
This has been a really strange year for us. We have had some of the greatest things happen and some of the most difficult things happen. It has been a roller coaster year and I must admit, I had not been feeling a lot of the spirit that I wanted to.
It was a couple of days before school got out for the break and Corbin called me from school really upset. Corbin is a hall monitor at school. He was talking to a boy in his class about the fact that he (the boy) was not supposed to be in the halls during recess. The boy got upset and grabbed Corbin's glasses off of his face and crunched them in his hand. I told Corbin that he needed to go talk to the principal about it. I was a little ticked that someone would do that but I was also surprised. I know the boy and he is not usually like that.
Corbin's teacher is a good friend of mine. She called me later and we started talking about it and what would have made the boy do that. She mentioned that she thought their family might be financially struggling. I told her she needed to find out as much as she could because we would like to do something to help them out.
The events that unfolded over the next 48 hours were nothing short of a series of Christmas miracles. It was found that the family was struggling in a huge way and that food was hard to come by, let alone Christmas. People stepped up in a HUGE way to ensure that this family had food, money and gifts. Another little family also benefited from this outpouring of love. And this was all the day before Christmas.
It's funny how Heavenly Father works. If Corbin's glasses hadn't of gotten crunched, we may have never known that this family needed help. I am so happy that He works through each of us and that sometimes we are on the ball enough to listen.
This year was one of the best Christmas's I have ever had. The spirit of Christmas lives on in this little valley of mine and in this heart of mine too.