A gift ushers the way and ushers the giver into the presence of the great. – Proverbs 18:16

I want to give a Christmas gift, and I need you guys to help me.  Would you be willing to write a letter?  I have a person in my life that is going through the roughest set of holidays she has ever gone through.  She has lost her husband recently and it has caused her to really doubt her faith in the Lord. On top of all this, she still has the day-to-day responsibilities of parenting, paying bills, and everything else life throws at her.

I’m going to buy her a really nice Bible.  In that Bible, I want to put your letter if you will write her one.  Pray, and then write as the Lord leads.  Maybe you could write about a tough time you went through and give a Bible verse that you held on to that helped you get through.  I will put the letter in the Bible where the verse can be found and maybe highlight it.  

I would like to have these by next week.  I have one church working on this now and hopefully they will bring me their letters this Sunday morning at Mt. Freedom.  You could drop it off at Salem Methodist Church at 4:00 this Sunday if you don’t mind coming to one of our services.  If you message me directly, I’ll give you the girl’s name and an address to mail these letters to if you live far away.  I could also give you more details if you need them.  Encourage anyone you might know to join this as well.  I’m hoping that I can put 50 letters in this Bible.  I’ll write 2, so 48 more would be great! 

Lord, please make this effort successful.  Help my little group come together to make one person’s Christmas crazy special.  I pray for her, Lord.  Lift her up!  The valley is a tough place to be . . . help her walk through.  Use the words that we write in our letters to help her draw nearer to You.  May she come to know this peace that passes all understanding.  Amen!