Morning thought 2 Tuesday Apr 20th
Good morning. It was the first time in approximately 25 years that I did
not go to Eastern Europe at all last year. For me It seemed extremely strange
and I was very grateful to the Romanian social workers for their photographs
and accounts of how well the goods sent over by Mustard Seed Jersey were
received.
Alex spoke of the distribution of Christmas shoeboxes to the school
children. This proved very complicated as the schools are all closed because of
the pandemic but the school authorities recognised the importance and the need
for Christmas gifts and arranged for Alex and his team to go into the villages
and hand out the packages to the children there. He sent me some wonderful
photographs of children with bright beaming smiles clutching their shoeboxes.
I think my favourite photograph is of a young father wearing a face mask
carrying a young child . The father is helping the
child hold the Christmas shoebox and on top of the shoebox is a loaf of bread.
Nelu is the social
worker who organises the bread distribution. As soon as the weather begins to
get cold, people turn to Nelu to ask when the bread distribution
will start and to plead that it starts quickly. He in turn contacts us and we
let him how our appeal for money is going. In 2020 throughout December right up
to now in the middle of April he has been distributing loaves of bread each
week, thanks to Jersey people’s giving. .
In the Bible we read the words of
Jesus “Every one to whom much is given,
of him or her much will be required”
In this country and this island we have so many resources, and it is surely our
responsibility to share with those who have not.