{"id":12142,"date":"2015-12-25T04:25:50","date_gmt":"2015-12-25T04:25:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=12142"},"modified":"2015-12-25T04:25:50","modified_gmt":"2015-12-25T04:25:50","slug":"christmas-spirit-found-in-nativity-scene","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=12142","title":{"rendered":"Christmas spirit found in Nativity Scene"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/baby.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-12143\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-12143\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/baby-300x194.jpg\" alt=\"baby\" width=\"300\" height=\"194\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/baby-300x194.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/baby.jpg 386w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Of course a Nativity Scene at this time of year is going to fill one with the spirit of this holy season.<\/p>\n<p>But consider what some staffers at the Children&#8217;s Home right here in Amarillo discovered. Someone phoned the Children&#8217;s Home office and told the office staff to go outside and look under the &#8220;baby Jesus&#8221; laying in the scene on the home grounds.<\/p>\n<p>So &#8230; they did. The staff discovered a <em>$50,000 check<\/em> given by someone who wants to remain anonymous.<\/p>\n<p>Is there a better example to be found to take note of this holiday?<\/p>\n<p>My wife and I have spent some time with the children who live at the home. As Darrin Murphy, who runs the Children&#8217;s Home, told Fox News&#8217;s Gretchen Carlson, the children &#8220;come from tough backgrounds.&#8221; Brother, do they ever.<\/p>\n<p>We have heard stories from the kids themselves about unspeakable brutalization at home. I won&#8217;t go into detail here, but suffice to say that many of these children endure hardships we wouldn&#8217;t wish on any human being.<\/p>\n<p>Whoever the donor is recognizes the terrible circumstances these children have endured, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/on-air\/the-real-story-with-gretchen-carlson\/index.html#\">Murphy said to Carlson.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This, indeed, very much is the season of giving. Someone out there has taken the giving spirit to heart &#8230; and it must be an immense heart at that.<\/p>\n<p>The Children&#8217;s Home has just been brightened by a donor moved to help children who&#8217;ve lived through untold hardship.<\/p>\n<p>All I&#8217;m left to say simply is: <em>Wow!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Of course a Nativity Scene at this time of year is going to fill one with the spirit of this holy season. But consider what some staffers at the Children&#8217;s Home right here in Amarillo discovered. Someone phoned the Children&#8217;s Home office and told the office staff to go outside and look under the &#8220;baby &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=12142\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Christmas spirit found in Nativity Scene<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,15],"tags":[5814,5815,1788,5813,5812],"class_list":["post-12142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","category-religious-news","tag-childrens-home","tag-darrin-murphy","tag-fox-news","tag-gretchen-carlson","tag-nativity-scene"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12142"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12142\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12144,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12142\/revisions\/12144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}