My church participates in Operation Christmas Child. We fill shoe boxes with toys for children in the developing world. This year I decided to fill one shoe box for a boy aged 2-4 and one for a girl aged 5-9. On Sunday, after the special service praying over and blessing the shoe boxes of non-procrastinating participants, I figured I could fill my shoe boxes and get them to the church on Monday morning, muttering a prayer of blessing over them myself. Since my children and I were already in Wal-Mart on Sunday, I thought grabbing shoe-box fillin's would be no problem.
Was. Not. Going. To. Happen.
