Blessing Box CommonGround

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Another Day in the life....
And I had a "Rider" in my tote after I loaded the box. 😂😻

Why Feet?
We read it so gently…

like it was clean
like it was symbolic
like it was… nice

But feet back then

were filthy

Not just a little dusty

Filthy

They walked everywhere
through dirt roads
animal waste
heat
sweat
open sandals

No pavement
no shoes like ours

Just skin
meeting the ground
all day long

Feet were the dirtiest part of a person

That’s why

when you entered a home
there was usually a servant

The lowest servant

The one no one else wanted to be

Their job

was to kneel
and wash it off

To touch what everyone avoided

To clean what everyone else
stepped over

So when no one moved

when the room stayed quiet
and no one reached for the towel

that meant something

It meant

no one was willing
to be lowest

And then

Jesus

The One who deserved
the highest place

knelt

He didn’t just wash feet

He touched the dirtiest part
of them

The part covered in everything
they had walked through

And He didn’t flinch

He didn’t hesitate

He didn’t skip anyone

Not even the one
who would betray Him

Because this wasn’t about cleanliness

It was about love

The kind of love
that gets close

The kind of love
that touches what’s messy

The kind of love
that doesn’t stand at a distance
waiting for you to clean yourself up

Jesus went straight
to the dirtiest place

and washed it

And if He did that

with their feet

Imagine what He’ll do

with your heart 🫶🏽

Have a blessed Palm Sunday. 🙌🏼

We will be making Easter baskets and selling them at the TSC Farmers Market on Saturday, March the 21st. 🧑‍🌾

We will make Easter Baskets, AMAZING EASTER BASKETS🐣 🧺, as we do every year for our Annual Easter Online Auction on FB also. Along with baskets, we make wreaths, door hangers, floral arrangements, yard signs, table decor, and homemade jelly, jam, and pickles, and cakes, etc. All of the proceeds for both events will go to buy food for our local Blessing Box located at the Monroe County Government Complex. Please join us. If you’d like to help in any way, especially if you are good at baking or crafting…just give us a call or message us on FB. We are just winging it.

We feel God is telling us to continue this mission…HIS mission. We will continue to be the hands and feet of Jesus by supplying food for this box and those less fortunate. It is hard work and it is time consuming and sometimes we want to quit…. 🤷‍♀️ But God.

As we are in our 10th year, we are committed to this as long as HE sees fit. So if anyone wants to help in anyway by loading the box, buying food, dropping it off, helping make crafts for the auction and Farmers Show, baking goods for the show, anything you can think of, Just ask us.

We appreciate the amazing ladies that help stock\load the box in the mornings, those that drop food off when they have it and those that go to the store and buy extra and load it. We also appreciate those that send monetary donations so we are able to buy stock. As you all know food is not cheap these days. Just a little goes a long way.💰

So be sure and follow our updates and may God bless you all. 💙☺️

A little boy once asked:

“Grandpa, what is evil afraid of?”

Grandpa smiled.

“That’s a great question,” he said.

“Evil is afraid of the truth — because the truth takes away its power.

It’s afraid of love — because love is a shield it can’t break through.

And it’s afraid of hope — because hope helps people stand up again, even after they fall hard.

But do you know what scares it the most?”

The boy shook his head.

“Unity,” Grandpa continued. “Evil feeds on division. It loves when people fight, judge, and turn against each other. But when people stand together and look out for one another, evil has no place to go.”

The boy thought for a moment.

“So if people stick together and help each other… evil disappears? Is it really that simple?”

Grandpa nodded gently.

“Yes,” he said. “Simple — and somehow the hardest thing for people to remember.”