Madam Speaker, in 1973, Audrey Martin knew her neighbour was an unemployed, single mother who had recently lost a child. Her neighbour had very little in her cupboards and nothing under the tree for her three-year-old son.
On Christmas Eve, Audrey Martin showed up at her neighbour's door with a Christmas miracle. Her small act of kindness has never been forgotten, and my mother and I will be eternally grateful for the donations of food and gifts she had collected from our neighbours to put under our tree.
Mother Teresa said, “The good news is that God still loves the world through each one of you. You are God’s good news, you are God’s love in action.” For my mother and I, Audrey Martin was God's good news and God's love in action.
There is more good news, and it is the good news of a small child named Jesus who was born in a manger. “For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.” That is the reason we celebrate Christmas. I want to wish everyone a very merry Christmas and a happy New Year.