Give Good Stuff

I went shopping yesterday to get some food for one of our projects at church. Nothing much, just a bag full. But as I was making decisions about what to get, something popped into my head from the Simpsons that affected it. Marge was asking the Lord to do something and promised that if he did it, the next time there was a canned food drive, she would give the poor something they actually liked, instead of the old crap that she didn't want any more.

How could I in good conscious go cheap and buy things that I wouldn't normally buy to donate? That wouldn't do. The best way to approach it, I think anyway, is to say "what would I get for me?" -- and then get something better to give away!

I pointed the same concept out to my daughter today. We had her birthday party and she got a lot of presents. I asked her to pick out some of the presents to donate to kids that didn't have any toys. She picked out a couple of things, and when I asked her about some of them, she picked out a couple of more. These were things that she didn't particularly like as much -- but then again, she's 5, so giving away ANY toys is awesome! Go kiddo!

It made my heart smile when I asked her why she was giving away the toys. She said "to be the answer" which is the theme of the projects we are doing at church the next weekend to help the community. Then she followed it up with "just like giving food to feed hungry people is being the answer." My little one rocks. :-)