Today involved kits and caboodles, if caboodles can mean oodles of cookies. I baked several dozens of chewy brownie cookies for the Gospel Echoes Christmas Cookie Project, in which cookie bags will be gifted to people in prisons. The cookies I made will join oodles of other likewise colorful, festive cookies and be distributed into individual packages of four, along with a scripture booklet and a short handwritten note.
While I was baking, I slowed down long enough to look out the kitchen window, to ooh and ahh over the gorgeous sunset, and to grab a few pictures.
Tonight I also put together some care kits for a local ministry which helps to provide housing for disadvantaged people. I hope the items I tucked into Christmas gift bags will cheer the recipients and help them to sense at least a touch of God's love on them personally this Christmas. Every December, I am re-awed by the meaning of Emmanuel. It would please me greatly to know that one little act of love that I do for someone else actually gives them a glimpse of the with-ness of God.
What are some ways you like to share God's love with others at Christmas?
Those cookies look like the same recipe I just made for Gospel Echoes.
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