Day 40 - Christmas Box (Give)

Yesterday was kind of busy and the day got away from me and there was only one thing given away ... but it counts.  The three oldest kids and myself are in the local production of the Nutcracker ballet.  No... I don't wear tights OR prance around on stage.  We are in the party scene at the beginning of the show.  Anyway, last night was dress rehearsal and we had to be on site by 6:00 (the Drama Queen (age 8) didn't finish practicing her part until 10:30 PM!). 

In between the end of school and the start of dress rehearsal, we had a quick visit from Meredith, a young lady who is a missionary with OMS.  We met her just a few weeks ago and our little Princess (age 3) fell instantly in love with her.  So Meredith was on her way to Louisville to visit some family and on her way she stopped to have dinner with us and then she also curled the Drama Queen's hair.  Before dinner, Melissa gave Meredith a box with an angel ornament inside.



Some of the other gift boxes
which will eventually need
a new home!

 Now this was no ordinary cardboard box - this was one of Melissa's Christmas boxes.  They are meant to put gifts in (I guess), but Melissa uses them mainly as decorations, and never before has she given away one that she is attached to.  So that's why this counts as a Give.  (We've got several more that could go!)

I also use this as the Day 40 Give because it affords me the opportunity to tell you a bit about Meredith and to request your prayers for her.  She was all geared up to go to Taiwan to work at an orphanage as a fulltime missionary.  She spent the last five months or so getting ready for this big move and was supposed to go just three or four weeks from now but she just got word that her visa has been rejected.  She's not sure that it is worth the time or effort to appeal and try again, so she is currently looking around to see if there is some other orphanage in some other country where God might be wanting to place her.  She has a remarkably good attitude about the whole thing - she says the location wasn't the important thing, she just wants to share God's love with orphans.  Please lift her up and pray that God would reveal his will for her in an unmistakable way!