As you read this I want you to think about how many pairs of socks you own????
A few weeks ago I took a great group of teens to Michigan for a mission trip. We were going up to work at a children's camp. Before we went to the camp we were going to go to downtown Grand Rapids and make breakfast for the homeless. The teens were not sure of this whole event of going to inner city to pass out breakfast. I wanted them to experience and see how other people lived that have a lot less then us.
Things didn't work out for the breakfast but through the help of my oldest son Scott I found out that we could go down and pass out socks to the homeless. I thought socks, really socks, well okay if they need them we can do that. I was down town at a store and went in to buy socks. I could get 6 pairs of socks for a little over $7.00 a bag.
Some of you may have been in different stores and seen the security tags on leather coats or expensive clothing. Well, this store where we went to get socks had put security tags on the packages of socks. We had to wait for them to take the security tags off each bag of socks. It was crazy to think that they had to put security tags on $7.00 bags of socks. I started to get just a glimpse of how valuable and how much people wanted simple socks.
The next day we went down town with my son Scott who has lived just around the corner from where we were going to pass out socks to the homeless. We got a pep talk from him about not letting anyone borrow your cell phone, or give out change, or give out any info about yourself. We then proceeded to a park where we saw some homeless people and we went over to them and started talking to them and they asked us if we were passing out socks. We of course said yes and their faces lit up and people came over to get socks. One lady asked if she could please have more than one pair so she could give a pair to her friend who was not there. It was almost overwhelming to watch people get so excited over getting a pair of socks. When the kids started this journey to the less fortunate they were smiling and kinda excited when they got back in the van to go it was quite a bit quieter.
Maybe none of you have ever gotten socks for Christmas and thought, oh man really socks for a Christmas gift. I even have a drawer just for my socks. Now though I can't open that drawer with out thinking about the people who not only don't have a drawer for their socks, they don't even have the socks.
I know the teens as well as myself got a new appreciation for the value of a pair of socks.
Do you appreciate your socks???
"Just Saying"
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