A light rain was filling as my family ran out of the Methodist Church, eager to get home and play with the presents for Christmas, but I noticed a _______ standing outside the locked door, gathered closely together under the narrow gas station in an attempt to keep _______.

My father was driving very slowly. _______, my father U-turned in the middle of the road and said, “They’re sanding in the min. They’ve got children. It’s Christmas today.”

My father rolled down his window. “Merry Christmas!” he said, “That bus isn’t going to come along for several hours. Why don’t you all get in the car and I’ll _______ you up there?” The man thought about it for a moment and then they climbed into the car. They had no _______, except the clothes they were wearing.

Once they _______, my father asked the children if Santa had _______ them yet. Three _______ faces gave him their answer. “Well, I didn’t think so,” my father said, “because when I saw Santa this morning, he told me that he was having _______finding you, and he asked me if he could ________ your toys.” All at once, the three children’s faces ________.

My mother noticed that the middle child was wearing a ________ dress, so she gave the girl my sister’s only sweater to wear. My father invited them to join us for Christmas dinner, but the parents ________ . Even when we all tried to talk them into coming, they were ________ in their decision.

On the way to the bus stop, 'my father pulled out two dollars and ________ the money into the man’s hand. The man tried to give it ________, but my father insisted. “Take it. I’ve been ________ before, and I know what it’s like when you can’t ________ your family.”

All this happened a long time ago, but the memory of it remains ________. That was the Christmas when my sisters and I learned the joy of making others ________.

I’ve always loved planning fundraisers(募捐会) for causes I care about.______it is a lot of hard work, I feel so good when I know I’ve helped someone.

When I ______ Logan, a little boy who had been badly hurt in an accident, I wanted to ______ him a favor. I asked my friend Zoey to do it with me. We ____

to hold a craft and bake sale at Zoey’s grandfather’s store. Our ______ was to raise two thousand dollars. We announced the ______ online so lots of people would come to visit it.

However, a few days before the sale, I got an angry ______. The woman on the phone said that she was Logan’s ______. As she kept talking, I began to understand why she was so ______. Because we hadn’t told Logan’s parents about our ______, she thought we were making use of her family’s terrible sorrow to make money for

____.

I tried to explain, but she wouldn’t ______. At last, I turned to my grandma for help. She called Logan’s aunt back and ______ that I was a child who just ______ to help them out.

Finally, everything was ______, but I felt upset about causing so much ______.

I still devote myself to helping the people and causes I care about.______, next time I want to help a family that is ______, I’ll be a lot more careful about ______ I do it. That way, I won’t end up accidentally ______ the people I most want to help.

In life, we will succeed and fail often for reasons that are entirely out of our ________. We can work harder than anyone else in the office and still not be________. We can be incredibly nice and love someone deeply, and they may not love us________.

The bottom line is that life is not ________.

That is a bitter ________for many of us to swallow. As a result, some people________after being hit by even one unfair blow from life. But if we let life’s unfairness________us, we will never receive the beautiful blessings that life has________for us.

My first________marriage felt very unfair to me. No matter how hard I had tried to be a good wife, I could not make the relationship________. I could have been________ by that experience. But I believed that I could be ________married one day________I always wanted to experience traditional family life. And then, I met this kind, thoughtful and generous man.

What I’ve learned over the years is that we can do all the things that________ a good outcome, but get________ things in return instead.

When we are faced with life’s seeming unfairness, our________needs to jump in. When life doesn’t go________plan, we have to let go of the outcome that we have been________and keep trying, and doing the right thing.________that life is neither fair nor straightforward, And by knowing that if we remain confident, we can drive our unfair experiences away and use them for our________.