Christmas cards don't have to be fancy to touch your heart. Take the hand-drawn picture of a tree we recieved from a first-grader in Ghana. The card features a tree inside, a tree growing in a grassy mound. The tree has no leaves, and the branches are all severed at a certain point. Each bare branch is topped with a circle, which perhaps represents Christmas ornaments. Beside the tree, he has drawn a book. The drawings are striking in their simplicity.
This child has someone, perhaps a volunteer who writes for him. I say this because I do not think it was the child who wrote "Happy Christmas" across the front with felt pen. Surely a grade one child would not have the foresight to enclose the Christian Children's fund catalog page with a picture of five baby chicks. I have often wondered if the family would prefer a goat or chickens or mosquito nets. I now know what this family needs, and thanks to that volunteer, and a pencil-crayon card, the child will soon be chasing, feeding and petting chickens.
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