Write Lightning is a blog from writer Deb Thompson.
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(Some links or topics may not be completely kid-appropriate.)
Everyone is welcome here.
(Some links or topics may not be completely kid-appropriate.)
Wed, Nov 19 2008
Shoebox gifts
There are quite a few churches and other organizations jumping in to do shoebox gifts this year. You can join with an organization already sponsoring the boxes or create your own network. Our local Grange is doing boxes that combine play items with small school supplies. You can pick a particular theme or choose an age group on which to concentrate. If some folks can't do the boxes themselves they might opt to donate cash to help defray the cost of shipping or distribution of the boxes. We have so many malls and souvenir shops and stores with dollar items that we forget what a great amount of wealth that represents to so many children in the world. The next time you meet an anti-Christmas snob who fusses at you about the commercialism of Christmas, maybe you can hand them a shoebox and suggest they focus on filling it for a child for whom Christmas seems a whole universe away from the idea of commercialism and excess.
posted at: 08:35 | category: /Religious and Spiritual | link to this entry
There are quite a few churches and other organizations jumping in to do shoebox gifts this year. You can join with an organization already sponsoring the boxes or create your own network. Our local Grange is doing boxes that combine play items with small school supplies. You can pick a particular theme or choose an age group on which to concentrate. If some folks can't do the boxes themselves they might opt to donate cash to help defray the cost of shipping or distribution of the boxes. We have so many malls and souvenir shops and stores with dollar items that we forget what a great amount of wealth that represents to so many children in the world. The next time you meet an anti-Christmas snob who fusses at you about the commercialism of Christmas, maybe you can hand them a shoebox and suggest they focus on filling it for a child for whom Christmas seems a whole universe away from the idea of commercialism and excess.
posted at: 08:35 | category: /Religious and Spiritual | link to this entry
