Everyone has different things that motivate their behavior, I find that my sweet oldest child is a huge motivator for many of the routine things I do.
Today was one of those tear-jerk moments, you see last night despite torrential rain and tornado warnings Frankie went with me to load 31 boxes of food into the back of my mini-van. You see, these boxes were loaded with can goods: Chef Boyrdee, vegetables, fruit, tuna, crackers, granola bars, oatmeal, etc. The boxes are headed to children who qualify for the free school lunch program. With the upcoming Thanksgiving break many of these children's families will struggle to supply three meals a day for the kids. Enter Lovepacs to help these families.
Lovepacs relies on individual and corporate donations to fill these boxes. They are prepared for children identified by school counselors for Thanksgiving, Christmas and Spring Break. In the Lewisville ISD school district where we live 478 boxes were packed and prepared for today's deliveries.
Our first delivery today was made to The Colony Police Department. These police officers will be taking 19 of the boxes along with bread and turkeys for families identified through the high school. Our second delivery was to Griffin Middle School where we met up with other volunteers to delivery 36 boxes.
It was touching to see so many people working together, many of them for children they've never met. I get choked up at the sight of my sweet girl who loves helping other people, grinning from ear to ear knowing she is helping children.
For He satisfies the longing soul,
and the hungry soul he fills with good things.
Psalms 107:9
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