The Vice Chair writes…
Last week at the
Finchley Foodbank I had a chat with a woman called Lillian.
Lillian is in charge
of the teas and coffees for the foodbank visitors and (with her husband Peter)
is a great pillar of St Mary's parish.
She had just returned
from pilgrimage to Medjugorje in Bosnia and Herzegovina. While there she had
met with a visiting priest and some of his parishioners who were eagerly
anticipating the Help A Christmas Child shoeboxes.
"They are done
with such love," said the priest. The parishioners talked of the joy with which the children received their gifts.
"To us they're
only shoeboxes, " said Lillian. "But from their reactions you would
have thought that we are giving them the whole world."
As we fly around
filling jars and shoeboxes and writing cheques and throwing change in buckets
and fielding school-related requests for this and that and the other, it's difficult
not to become jaded and wonder whether our efforts are making the slightest
iota of difference.
They really are.
Thanks to everyone who
made up a shoe box, and to everyone who helps out with our seemingly constant
HTSA requests. You really do make a difference.
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