With the end of the holiday season coming on I’d like to share a story about something amazing B (my husband) and I experienced this year:

Metropolitan Ministries is a local community service that helps homeless and disadvantaged families. Every year they have a food drive to help deliver and serve holidays meal to THOUSANDS of families. We’ve donated money and food every year, but after hearing about how many of the food banks in our area were nearly empty we decided to volunteer a few days too.

Just before Thanksgiving there was an urgent announcement on the radio and on the news: There was going to be no meals for thousands of families. The interview with Morris Hintzman, the President of MM, was heartbreaking. People who had previously given donations were now signing up for assistance for the very first time. There were thousands in need… many on the verge of becoming homeless.

We arrived at 7:30 am to help accept food and donations. What happened over the next 4 hours was nothing short of amazing. There were hundreds of cars coming through the drop off tent. We opened trunks to find twenty or thirty turkeys. People wrote thousand dollar checks and refused to accept a receipt. The thing that amazed me was the variety of people. It didn’t matter if they were in a BMW or a beat up truck, each one said nearly the same thing:

“We heard it on the radio,

we saw it on the television,

and we are bringing what we can.”

Even though nothing donated was for me I felt like a modern day George Bailey.

Take that, Mr. Potter!