Since 2006 we have made cookies to take to a local women's shelter on Christmas Eve. Although we do not celebrate Christmas ourselves per se, we know that people tend to be more sensitive about things of the Lord during this time of year. In the past we have enjoyed showing this small gesture of love toward these hurting and precious women. The chance to bless them, pray for them and share things of the Lord with them is always such a highlight of the season for us. It most likely blesses us much more than it blessed them! This year our family had the flu the whole week before Christmas. SO, we were very behind on baking by the time we all recovered! On Christmas Eve day we were so busy finishing up the cookies! Sometime around mid afternoon, our very sweet neighbor whom we have known for many years now, came over and blessed us with a huge dinner! A pot roast, carrots, twice baked potatoes and fruit. What a perfect day for this. I mean, the kitchen was trashed with nothing planned for dinner! Thank you so much K for blessing us like that. It enabled us to go deliver the cookies, take some time at the shelter and come home to a beautiful dinner. It makes me think of the verse in Luke:
38 Give, and it will be given to you: good measure, pressed down, shaken together, and running over will be put into your bosom. For with the same measure that you use, it will be measured back to you.” Luke 6:38 NKJV
Amanda's crinkle cookies (you can see the pot roast cooking too!)
"Were you helping or sampling, Laura?"
Wonderful job girls!
The women's shelter
A view of the kitchen and all the cookie mess!
What a blessing to come home to this wonderful meal! Thank you dear neighbors!
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