it's operation christmas child time. we got our shoe box, and set about teaching jack that there are children in the world who don't have "things" the way we do. he became very frustrated with the idea of buying toys for another child...here we go.
after MUCH explanation ("God loves a cheerful giver." 2 corinth 9:7), and lots of rules about not asking for anything for him ("honor one another above yourself." romans 12:10), we hit the coolest dollar store i think i've ever been in.
seriously though, i feel like the only lesson i'm teaching him right now is to not be selfish. with his brother...at school...with our shoe box child... putting others before your self is clearly not innately understood, it is learned.
jack really got into it in the dollar store though, and it was so fun to watch him fill the shoe box for a little boy with such joy and excitement! he was definitely on a shopping spree!
this morning before church, the boys filled their box. we had fun arranging all of the stuff, talking about who might get our box, and writing a little note to put in.
"do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit, but in humility consider others better than yourselves."
philippians 2:3
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i think i'm still learning - i think it's a lifetime kind of thing for all of us. thanks for the reminder! what a wonderful verse!
Don't despair - we had a shockingly similar experience in our house when we were filling our shoe box. I quite literally had to wrestle a plastic snake away from Cooper to put in our Operation Christmas Child Box! We're still learning, too!
Been talking to Walker about the same thing with our Operation X-mas Child. I tried explaining how other kids did not have things like we have and so I showed his several different You Tube videos of remote area, different type of houses (with no electricity or plumbing) Slums. Anyways I don't know how much of it he really grasped because he wanted to get them a computer or a bike. Oh well.
yes yes yes! you rock my face off!
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