[Nevertheless] We Help [Advent 14]
Some months ... most months ... money is tight and I worry about having enough - enough money to pay bills and buy food and afford medical expenses and sustain children's activities and gas and car repairs, and, and, and. It's always something.
For the past few months we have been blessed with an abundance of food from the Epoch food pantry. In fact, we've taken home so much food "left over" from our Friday food pick-ups - food that would have been thrown away - that we've been able to fill our freezers, our church freezer, and fridges and freezers of families in need in our area who can't make it out to pick up food. We've cooked and served some of the food at our church @ the table on Tuesday nights. We've given food to people who stopped by to visit. We've been able to help others through receiving help ourselves.
We got to do something amazing recently - we filled our 15 passenger van, two of three back seats removed, with non-perishable food items from the Connecticut Food Bank to join the hundreds of pounds of produce and bakery items from two grocery stores for this past Friday's food pantry day.
1.393 tons of food.
It took about forty minutes for my husband, 19 year old daughter, 11 year old daughter, and I to load it all into our van, over two hours to unload it and get it into Epoch Arts, and even longer to sort through it all and get it on tables for people to take.
It was a ton of work ... over a ton, actually ... but so worth it.
We may not have the financial means to help others, nevertheless, we look out for opportunities such as this to use the resources we have to improve the lives of those around us.
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