"Gift Package of Honor"

I just have to share this great story, told by a Salvation Army social worker at our St. Paul Citadel Worship and Service Center:

“As we were opening the doors to let clients into the building for the breakfast program a young man pulled me aside and asked if we might have some flowers or something for his mom’s birthday. I said we could help him with something. We normally have plenty of unique items that comes into the food shelf and I believed we could put something together for him. I started to review the stuff in the food shelf and was reminded that I received a very nice box of dark chocolates as a gift for Valentines Day. I love dark chocolate and so does my wife, so I dismissed the thought and kept rummaging through the food shelf for something special. Then a thought hit me. ‘Why am I saving the best for me and trying to find something else for this client? God never did that to me. He always gave his best!’ So I went to my office and pulled out the prized dark chocolate box and with the collective help of the office team we put together a gift bag of special items. The best we could find. We called it ‘the gift package of honor.’ We were helping one of God’s precious souls honor his mother. As he wrote out the card to her, his heart was overwhelmed with gratitude. He thanked us for such a special gift and we thanked him for the honor to serve.”