Looking Up Into The Light

Catherine was an unusual child that longed to do the type of things that normal families did together at Christmas. There was not much hope of this happening in her family though. So she pinned her hopes for change on the reflections she always saw in the stained glass window of the church she attended at Christmas time, since something unusual always seemed to happen afterwards. One year the family received a turkey, the next a Christmas pudding and once some gifts were left on their verandah by a kind stranger.
In the meantime, she helped her mother around the house and dreamed about a better life where people loved and cared for her.
So will Catherine's Christmas wish perhaps come true this year?
And what about your wishes? Is someone out there perhaps listening to your pleas for a better life?