Donations

One of the tasks the team is doing here in Hato Mayor is helping Sofia organize all of the donated items that she has received. This entails going through boxes, sorting items, building shelves, and finding other options for organizing and making items easily available for when the need arises for that particular item. As the team began pulling open the boxes we came across everything from new office supplies (Thank you to the donors) to old used items, to people’s mail, magazines from 1974, ripped up books and papers, games missing most the pieces, and other misc. items covered in mouse poop and other unrecognizable substances. We were surprised at some of the items people put in the donation box. Not all of it has been bad but more than half have been things we would consider trash. I am reminded of how Christ calls us to give our best. How in the book of Ruth Chapter 2 verse 16 Boaz instructed the workers to: “pull out some stalks for her from the bundles and leave them for her to pick up, and don't rebuke her." He had them leave some of the good part of the crop for her, not the left over scraps that no one else wanted. How often do we give our best, both when we give to others as well as in action and words. Do we save the best for ourselves or do we generously bless others with the best of what we have?