Operation Christmas Child

Its the Christmas season once again and each year our kiddos get a bit older and a little bit smarter. You know like can pick up on all the Christmas hype. Like the toy catalogues, the large colorful inserts in the DSM register etc. 

So it gets harder and harder to try and teach them about the real reason we celebrate this season. Jesus' birth. Our King's birthday! We read the Christmas story, do an advent calendar, have a birthday cake etc. Yet our sinful natures are so powerful and innate that we easily slip in greed and jealous. Want. Want. Want. 

I'm not just talking about my kiddos. Yes. They definitely follow suit. But I am talking about us. Yes. The adults too fall quickly into this category. Its just a little less obvious. 

I don't have the fix all solution. But God did. He sent Jesus. Our one and only PERFECT gift. We don't need anything else - just HIM. What an awesome gift. But as we have been reading in a book, The King's Christmas List...Jesus wants us to give gifts to one another but if we want to give a gift to Him we must give to others in need and show them the Christmas Spirit. 

So we filled a couple of Operation Christmas Child shoeboxes - a fun easy way to get your kiddos involved. 

And there are many families in need and many parents can't provide their children with Christmas gifts. But there are opportunities all over and not just in this season to show your children and your community the love of Jesus Christ. 

"Christ has no body on earth but yours, no hands but yours, no feet but yours. Yours are the eyes through which Christ's compassion for the world is to look out; yours are the feet with which He is to go about doing good; and yours are the hands with which He is to bless us now." ~Saint Teresa of Avila