Making A Difference

At the Good Neighbor Thrift Store and We Care office we stay busy. Very, very busy. From dating cans of green beans, to shining glassware, to hanging up shirts, to testing blenders, we do it all. Every day. And with a super big smile. Somehow, hard work never seemed like so much fun. Meeting new people, finding treasures, discovering new talents, and eating stale pastries are all in a day's work here. 

But where does this urge to get up in the morning and come to do this come from? Why spend valuable time, risking life and limb, to drive on hwy 98 to go somewhere and work and not get paid? 

I remember watching a video series with my son, not so long ago, haha, when he was young, called  "The Donut Man ''. The underlying message of this program is that each of us is made by God, and we are kinda like a donut. Each of us has a God given hole that needs to be filled. The catch is that only one thing can fill it. We can try to fill it with sports, work, tv. and lots of fun stuff, but that just won't do it. God made the hole, and only letting God back in can fill it. When we let God in and choose to work for Him, things change. I mean really change. That is when working for him is no longer work. It is service. And it is fun. That is what we do here. We work together and serve Him. And that makes us complete. With out a hole.