Percy's Presents

Percy’s Presents
By Tim Ross

Percy’s Presents
Written and Illustrated by Tim Ross
© Tim Ross, 2018
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This is Percy.
Some people would call Percy an "Abominable
Snowman", but abominable means being mean
and horrid. Percy is not like that, he is actually a
lot like you and me, so, really, he is a not-quite-so
-abominable snowman. We should actually call
Percy a yeti, because that is what abominable
snowmen are really called.

Today, Percy is sad.
It has only been one week since his birthday and
already some of his presents are no good.

The wheel on his new toy car is broken and
the batteries have gone flat.

He really liked the big tube of sweets his aunty
gave him, but he has eaten them all, and now he
hasn't got any left.

Worst of all, his new wooly hat; his new, wooly,
red hat; his extra special, new, wooly, red hat with
a bobble on top for playing in the snow, shrank
when it was washed.

Percy asks his mummy if all things that people
give break, run out or go wrong.
"Not all things," she says. "Some things do wear
out or break, but there is one special present
which never breaks, never wears out and never
ends which anyone can have."

Percy's mummy tells him that a long time ago
God, who made the whole world, gave his son,
Jesus, to the world. He did this so that everyone
would know that God loved them and that they
could be his friend.
This is what we remember at Christmas.

The people in Jesus' time didn't want God's gift,
so they broke him to get rid of him.
This is what we remember on Good Friday.

But God loved everyone so much (and that
means you and me as well) that he mended his
special gift by raising Jesus from the dead.
This is what we remember on Easter Day.
Percy's mummy tells him that God did all this so
that anyone can have God's special present.

"What is God's special present, Mummy?" Percy
asks.
"God's special present is knowing in your heart
that God loves you, Percy," she says.
Percy thinks that sounds like the best present
ever.