A week in the life of a Christmas Card
Someone picked a name off of our tree and lovingly and generously filled the boxes with gifts and wrote a card. It was intended for Todd in it's origin, but God had other plans.December 16th the card and the gift were brought to IHOP and were added to the many we had already received.
It was brought then to my house where it sat waiting patiently to be given away. It was jostled and moved, rearranged and piled over and over again as we tried to organize and make sure that it and all the other gifts and cards like it got to the right place.
Monday arrives and the party is planned and preparations are underway. While the turkey and ham and everything else yummy was being made, the presents and cards where moved once again to the living room of my house and soon transported to the IHOP shuttle to make it's way down town.From the shuttle to church, the card waited. As we gave out the presents we realized that Todd was not there, but there were some men that we didn't have a gift for. Todd's gift was given away, but we kept the card. While cleaning up, we threw the card in another gift bag that was being held on to for a lady who didn't come. Once again it was thrown into the shuttle, and back to my house.
And there it sat until Thursday. We took the presents for the people we missed to the park on Thursday. It was taken from my house to Ronna's truck, and forgotten while we ate chili in the park with our friends.
One of the ladies we haven't seen since the "goldie" days (Goldie died a number of months ago) came down to see us. She has been in rehab and is doing great! She graduates in a week and is coming to hang with us again. As we talked to her, and hung out, Lisa felt like she was to go and get one of the presents (again intended for someone who wasn't there). It was a specific gift she felt she was supposed to get. She went and got it.We laughed as Todd's tag was inside the bag. She then pulls out the card. Todd's card. We laugh again. Because we haven't seen Todd for awhile, I decided to open the card and Lisa says "if there is anything in it, it goes to Ginger". I opened it, and out falls $50.00. We hand it to Ginger and she is moved to tears. That card could have ended up anywhere, but the Lord intended it for Ginger to bless her and encourage her in her new life.
So again, thank you to all of you who so generously gave to the "adopt a homeless person" event. The Lord orchestrated every gift and it was an honor for all of us at Hope City to be the hands through which the gifts were distributed!
I love it!
It was brought then to my house where it sat waiting patiently to be given away. It was jostled and moved, rearranged and piled over and over again as we tried to organize and make sure that it and all the other gifts and cards like it got to the right place.
Monday arrives and the party is planned and preparations are underway. While the turkey and ham and everything else yummy was being made, the presents and cards where moved once again to the living room of my house and soon transported to the IHOP shuttle to make it's way down town.From the shuttle to church, the card waited. As we gave out the presents we realized that Todd was not there, but there were some men that we didn't have a gift for. Todd's gift was given away, but we kept the card. While cleaning up, we threw the card in another gift bag that was being held on to for a lady who didn't come. Once again it was thrown into the shuttle, and back to my house.
And there it sat until Thursday. We took the presents for the people we missed to the park on Thursday. It was taken from my house to Ronna's truck, and forgotten while we ate chili in the park with our friends.
One of the ladies we haven't seen since the "goldie" days (Goldie died a number of months ago) came down to see us. She has been in rehab and is doing great! She graduates in a week and is coming to hang with us again. As we talked to her, and hung out, Lisa felt like she was to go and get one of the presents (again intended for someone who wasn't there). It was a specific gift she felt she was supposed to get. She went and got it.We laughed as Todd's tag was inside the bag. She then pulls out the card. Todd's card. We laugh again. Because we haven't seen Todd for awhile, I decided to open the card and Lisa says "if there is anything in it, it goes to Ginger". I opened it, and out falls $50.00. We hand it to Ginger and she is moved to tears. That card could have ended up anywhere, but the Lord intended it for Ginger to bless her and encourage her in her new life.
So again, thank you to all of you who so generously gave to the "adopt a homeless person" event. The Lord orchestrated every gift and it was an honor for all of us at Hope City to be the hands through which the gifts were distributed!
I love it!
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