Christmas vacation had already begun for us kids: two weeks including New Year’s. Christmas was always a time of giving in our home. Besides being a busy single working mother of three young children, my mother organized a holiday food basket for a needy family in the community at her workplace.
One rainy winter night in the week before Christmas, Mother was driving home from work and stopped short of missing a man trying to navigate a bicycle in the storm. Not properly clothed for rain, he was drenched to the bone, and she stopped to offer some help. When the dripping man approached her car, she recognized José, a man she worked with. She insisted on taking him home and loaded his old bicycle into the car.
