Merry Christmas!

Perfect Provision

One of the many reasons I love being at DTS...

Free Christmas Dinner!

Saturday morning, I walked over to the dining commons to pick up our humongous box of food! Each year, anyone at DTS can sign up to receive a free Christmas dinner. It's incredible! There were tons of volunteers offering their time to pack the boxes and carry them for you. I tried to convince them that I could carry the box back to our apartment myself, but a member of the President's Council told me that he couldn't get fired on his first turkey. So I obliged!

The box contained a precooked, smoked turkey, a box of stuffing, a dozen dinner rolls, a bag of amazing tortilla chips (even red and green for Christmas!), four potatoes, four apples, four bananas, four oranges, a bag of carrots, two cans of corn, two cans of green beans, a can of cranberry sauce, and a HUGE pumpkin pie!

As I began to unload the box, I noticed a lime green envelope that had slipped down to the bottom of the box. I figured it was a note to say Merry Christmas, and I pulled it out to read it. The envelope read, 

"The President's Council hopes that you are greatly blessed this Christmas season with this extra gift."

Extra gift??? I don't remember them including this last year... hmm. I opened the envelope to find a $40 gift card to Walmart!!! I don't know if someone donated them or what, but what a blessing! Christmas dinner, extra food, and $40 to Walmart!

God has continued to provide for us during our time here in ways we never would have imagined. He's made Matthew 6.25-33 real to me over the last two and a half years.

“For this reason I say to you, do not be worried about your life, as to what you will eat or what you will drink; nor for your body, as to what you will put on. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing? Look at the birds of the air, that they do not sow, nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not worth much more than they? And who of you by being worried can add a single hour to his life? ... Do not worry then, saying, ‘What will we eat?’ or ‘What will we drink?’ or ‘What will we wear for clothing?’ For the Gentiles eagerly seek all these things; for your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things. But seek first His kingdom and His righteousness, and all these things will be added to you."

God is faithful to keep His word. This Christmas season, I'm so grateful to Him for all the ways He provides for my needs. Most of all, I'm thankful for how He's provided for my spiritual need through sending Jesus to pay the penalty for my sins and that he rose again that I may live with Him forever.