Jason F. Wright ’s family sat at the kitchen table on Christmas Eve in 2004, around a jar filled with about $88 in change. They had been steadily filling the jar since October, adding extra change to the jar and taking a moment to pause and think about someone else each day. And now, the family was going to give the jar away.

Sitting around their table, Wright, his wife, Kodi, and his children picked out a family from their church and then left the change-filled jar on their doorstep, ringing the doorbell and running away through the yard before the family could spot them.

It was the first time that Wright’s family had given away a jar in this way — but it certainly wasn’t the last.

“It just woke something up, I think, in all of us,” Wright told the Deseret News, reflecting on the expe

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