On Saturday afternoon we visited a girls' orphanage that we support in Lima. 27 girls live there between the ages of 4 and 20. We had a Christmas party for all the girls featuring traditional Peruvian fruitcake - a Christmas delicacy here - and hot chocolate, plus our church youth put on a great Christmas show, and of course we had a ton of early Christmas gifts for all of the girls as well.
The Christmas party and the food and the show and the gifts were all a blast, but as I look back on Saturday afternoon I think that the best part of the whole day was when we were just sitting around, talking, playing, and hanging out with all 27 of our young friends. This casual social contact seemed to be just as important to the girls as the food and the gifts and the show. We were all very happy to bless the girls with all of those things, but we were even happier to be able to bless all of them with our time and our attention. And we were even more greatly blessed by them as a result.
Your time and your attention. These are two gifts that are both priceless and free for you to give to others this Christmas season.
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