Garden of your heart

The Joy of giving and serving!

Today our church hosted a Thanksgiving Dinner for those in the community that we knew of who were struggling and could use food.  Not all of the people who said they were going to come made it, but the one's that did were such sweet people. 

What just blessed my heart was to see the people in our church donate cooked turkey and all the trimmings, their time, their love and service to those who did come.  The smiles around that room were amazing to watch.  On top of all this, the families were also able to take home an uncooked turkey and a bag of groceries (all donated by church families) for an entire Thanksgiving Meal at home.  To see their faces and hear some say that they felt so pampered and loved brought joy to my heart as I know these people have it really tough in life right now.  I watched a little boy cover his plate of food that he couldn't eat and package it up to take home for leftovers.  He was so excited to have food to take home with him.  It broke my heart that a couple kids were too shy to come in, but people graciously took food to them and they ate in the van. 

I just pray that those who came could see Jesus today in the lives of those who served!  I pray that the Holy Spirit will draw them to Himself and that they will allow God to become Lord of their lives.  May God receive all the glory for today!  He is so worthy of praise and He makes this heart glad and thankful!  :)