Love and Sadness!

So today was my first day delivering food for the Food Bank and the backpack program.  I was soo excited to be apart of this and then last night I had a dream that made me think otherwise!  hehe  Oh how I just love dreams!   

So this dream was just crazy and made me very nervous to go in today.  So I go in not knowing what to expect and I was takin over to a guy named Glenn.  The van wasn't back yet so we loaded the pallets up into his truck and drove off.  As we are driving, he is talking my ear off and I am trying to pay attention since the next time I will be on my own. 

So we get to the first school and I then find out that it's the only school.  That makes me very happy so that I'm not having to remember where all these other schools are.  So we park and open up the back of the truck and he takes me in to show me what to do.  We come back out and start loading up to six boxes on the dolly and wheel them up the hill and into the school.  I'm thinking ok this isn't too bad.  However, I am feeling horrible pain in my arms and shoulders bc I decided to rake my whole back yard yesterday but that is another story. 

So we make about 5 or 6 or 7 trips of 5 or 6 boxes each time and stack them in the hallway.  As I am doing this I have to stop and wait for a class to walk by, and then another one.  These kids are waving and saying hi and i'm sure they were about 1st or 2nd grade. 

At this point I feel this great sadness seeing these kids faces and knowing that alot of these bags of food will be going to these kids that are passing by.  It's easier to do something without emotion when you aren't able to connect it to anyone specific.  It broke my heart and made this job soo much more important to me knowing that I will be feeding these kids by making sure the food got there.  What better way to love on these kids than to do something for them that will never know about.

Anyway so I finish the boxes and head back and decide that this is def a job for me.  I will be very excited to do this job every Thursday morning knowing that I am feeding these kids.  Knowing that this may seem like the easier job ever that only takes an hour, but what a HUGE hour it is!!!