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Boy, are we busy. Already! But, it always seems that we *all* are busy, doesn't it? I sure long for those simple times that I keep hearing and reading about. However, I can't seem to come up with any thing to drop out of our family's schedule. Everything seems worthwhile. Everything seems of value right now. Anyone else have that problem? Despite our frenetic pace, we are enjoying life enormously. Shoe boxes for Samaritan's Purse were put together last weekend in a whirlwind- I mistakenly believed that they were "due" back last Sunday during AWANAS time. Whew! Now, we have time to put in personal letters and find photos to print out to include in our boxes. I am so glad. We haven't done that for several years despite the fact that the children especially enjoy doing this very personal thing. We are usually too busy - so, does this mean that we aren't as busy as usual?? This year Chloe opted to contribute to a box going to two Romanian girls instead. Our church sent out a small group to Romania in September. The photos and stories that they returned with were incredible. The junior high girls in the AWANAS group decided to gather school supplies together to post to two teen orphan girls. I noticed that looks were exchanged between Chloe and Mitch last week when their Latin lesson included the information that Romanian was a Romance language derived from Latin (making Romanian easier to learn by already knowing Latin). The making of the shoe boxes always signals the beginnings of the holidays and Christmas season. As we shopped this year - only Suzannah went with me this time around - I thought of Ann Prunty often. Ann manages the operation of Operation Christmas Child in the ACT region. She is enthusiastic, compelling, and a hard-worker. Under her care, the number of collected shoe boxes in the ACT has continued to increase. It is not unusual for her to actually *go* where these boxes end up. What wonderful advice she had given to us about what to put in our boxes. Because Ann had actually been to see some of the boxes delivered, we knew to listen to her suggestions about what should be included. As Suz and I meandered thru the store, we did our best to do Ann proud. This is our second shoe box season away from our friend Ann. We sure miss her and hope that the shoe boxes are coming in by the dozens in the ACT this year. The Lord is using this wonderful ministry for His work. Isn't it exciting that Christians can participate in this same work while living in different countries??
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