This post is one I wrote on my personal blog and just wanted to include it here also even though it deviates from my niche of interior decorating just a bit. I have met so many wonderful Christian women on the blogs and I am sure some of these things are on your minds as well in this Christmas season.
With all the glitz and glam and fun of Christmas that we enjoy so much ...always in the back of my mind is what I can do for someone in need at this time of year. I am almost overwhelmed when I think about it. So many need so much or have suffered a lot this year and just need to be remembered. I am trying to think of special ways to help out that would mean something to these people.
One thing I thought of was donating a nice coat from my closet to a homeless person when a little Cub Scout came by asking me to support this effort. It was a small sacrifice to help someone stay warm during the bitter cold of winter.
Another thing I want to do is sign up my neighbors (who have had a tremendously difficult year with multiple serious medical issues) for some beautiful caroling from the youth in our church.
While at church today I was prompted to invite a young woman who is living here all alone from Columbia and missing her family, to come to our family dinner in a few weeks. It would be terrible to be lonely at Christmas time.
I have two uncles left that are both shut-ins. I want to send them some scanned and copied photos of the good old days to cheer them up. I know that would make my parents happy to think that I did something for their siblings.
I want to send some grocery gift cards to the Ronald Mc Donald type house here in Oakland that always needs milk for the families staying in the house while their tiny babies and children are in the hospital. OOur family received this tender mercy with our youngest granddaughter more than once over the past 15 months when she was hospitalized. I want to pay it forward.
Our church is donating school supplies and children's books to needy kids this year. The needs and lack of necessities for so many is so apparent it is mind-boggling.
I am looking for some more ideas that are not costly but can mean a lot and that is where you all come in. What are your ideas for reaching out this year? There is so much to do and the Lord has need of willing hands. If we can each just do a little something to make a difference in someone's life what a better Christmas it will be for all. The earth needs this right now, don't you think? I need more ideas. I have a friend who just lost her mom, my friend is suffering...what to do..what to do??
You are all such ministering angels, I know you can think of something.
