I was fighting the blues last weekend by packing some personal shoe boxes with items I'd been saving for my own Operation Christmas Child boxes. What a blast!
First there were the five plastic tool boxes I've been slowly buying tools to fill. Made a few trips to the nearby Harbor Freight to fill them up.
And then there were the 10 soccer balls. I'd been waiting for two years to find cheap pumps to go with them and finally bought some at Walmart.com for about $2.00 each.
Then there were 10 boxes with full-size basketballs (and pumps) along with all the basic items and stuffed animals and fillers.
Two boxes held hand-knit blankets and another dozen had special dolls or new back packs.
I got the chance to arrange and rearrange items and pray over each box.
Don't get me wrong--it's a real rush to be at a large packing party and watch a 52 foot truck fill up with cartons. But this one-by-one box packing is so very satisfying--with time to pray and imagine each child who will receive each special box.
I completed 58 boxes and just need to put the follow-your-box labels on them.
Meanwhile...there's still lots of praying and box packing to do. I'm hoping to be at another packing party tomorrow night with the youth group at a church that's never participated in Operation Christmas Child before.
Stay tuned....
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