Santa

How would you handle meeting someone claiming to be the real Santa Claus?

This really happened to us about twenty two years ago. My wife and I were going through a bad spell with our finances. We were sitting in a food court at a local mall when a white bearded gentleman sat next to us. Out of the blue he told us to not lose hope and that Christmas would sort itself out. He was so pleasant that we both felt great. He left us a business card as he left to join his wife who was standing nearby. His name was Kris Kringle. Our finances did come together and we had a lovely time that year. This really did happen...

Public Comments

1. wow ..thats cool ....tell santa about me !!!!!! i been good this year ..i think ?
2. sometimes it's best not to try too hard to figure out a mystery. especially a great story like that one.
3. Tell him what you want for Christmas. I Cr 13;8a 11-22-6
4. I would ask him why my brother didn't get the Rock-em Sock-em Robots he wanted one year?!?!?
5. How would I handle? I guess this is good... By telling as many people about this experience and spreading the "Good News". I need him now (please tell him if you see him again... Lol...) but I guess he'd know that I need him... (oh, you said he gave you a business card? Do you have his contact info? Lol...)
6. Oh boy! am really facinated by your story, I wish I could meet someone also who's kind and generous not only to the needy but also to those who deserves it. Have you ever heard the song SANTA CLAUSE IS COMING TO TOWN? This song typified Santa Clause as the all knowing God of the bible! Well for your information here are some facts about SANTA CLAUSE. As you can see "Saint Nicholas" (Santa Claus), is a highly popular saint of the Roman Catholic Church, and reverenced with still greater devotion by the Russian Church, which regards him as a special patron, was one of the early bishops of Mysia, in Lysia. The precise date of his episcopate is a subject of much controversy. Of his personal history hardly anything is certainly known, and the great popularity of the devotion to him wrought through his intercession. He is regarded in Catholic countries as a special patron of the young, and particularly of scholars. On the vigil of his feast, which is held on December 6, a person in the appearance and costume of a bishop assembles the children of a family or a school and distributes among them, to the good, gilt nuts, sweetmeats, and other little presents as the rewards of good conduct; to the naughty ones, the redoubtable punishment klanbauf. The supposed relics of St. Nicholas were conveyed from the East to Bari, in the kingdom of Naples, toward the close of the eleventh century." Thus the fable is a part of the old relic-worshipping traditions of a corrupt church. The nearness of his feast, in December, to the Christmas festival, led to associating the saint and the present-giving idea with the feast of December 25. We must admit, in the light of the Bible, that it is very foolish and wrong to teach little children the tales of Santa Claus. "Little children, keep yourselves from idols." In this age when the blessed gospel is to be preached to the whole world, according to the prophecy (Matt. 24:14), it is far better to donate our savings to that good work, so that the poor heathen, in dense darkness and untold suffering, may share the blessings of heaven, rather than to spend our means in celebrating an old festival that has no foundation in the Bible. There are also many other good purposes for which we can use the money is a sensible way. May the God of truth sanctify you wholly, and at last "present you faultless before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy." Jude 24. The figure of Santa Claus first begins to show up among the Pennsylvania Dutch in the mid 1820s in the form of Kris Kringle, or as he was also known, Belsnickle. Belsnickle is a derivative of the German "Pelz-nickle", which means "Nicholas in Furs ". Belsnickle would travel the Pennsylvania countryside ringing his bell looking for good children to give out his small gifts of cakes and nuts to. If Belsnickle came across a child who had not been behaving in the past year, he would warn the child to be good or else he might give them a smack with his rod. The song "Santa Clause is coming to town", resembles the second coming of christ. wherein Christ said "Behold my gifts is with me" Do you believed this?
7. That's cool! Since I still believe in Santa I think this might have really happened. Merry Christmas!
8. I'd pass it on. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Stewart Apparently, he was inspired by somebody giving him twenty bucks when he was homeless -- don't know the truth/details, but.
9. If it really did happen, you must be the luckiest people on earth.think over and over again maybe he will come again some wintry day.if not just keep on thinking and...love Santa.that's the most wonderful legend.