December 2025

{Think about the} lavishness of the gift that first Christmas morning, the extravagance of love that came in the form of a tiny, helpless newborn. Consider the gift for a moment, what Jesus really did. He swapped a spotless castle for a grimy stable. He exchanged the worship of angels for a company of killers. He could hold the universe in His palm but gave it up to float in the womb of a maiden.

If you were God, would you sleep on straw, nurse from a breast, and be clothed in a diaper? Jesus did.

If you knew that only a few would care that you came, would you still come? If you knew that those that you loved would laugh in your face, would you still care? If you knew that the tongues you made would mock you, the mouths you made would spit at you, the hands you made would crucify you, would you still make them? Christ did. Would you regard the immobile and invalid more important than yourself? Jesus did.

He humbled Himself. He went from commanding angels to sleeping in the straw. From holding stars to clutching Mary’s finger. The palm that held the universe took the nail of a soldier.

Why? Because that’s what love does. It puts the beloved before itself. Your soul was more important than His Blood. Your eternal life was more important than His earthly life. Your place in heaven was more important to Him than His place in heaven, so He gave up His so you could have yours.

And that’s what extravagant giving is all about – love, God’s love, a love that knows no bounds, no limits, no end. The Christmas kind of love. The type of love we are commanded to give to others. A love worth giving to others.

Excerpted from “A Love Worth Giving to You at Christmas”, Max Lucado

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What our partners are saying...

"We would like to say how much your donations of diapers had an impact on our family. We are of family of six, and we just recently have taken on guardianship of my two nephews, making us a family of eight. Recently with the government shut down and not receiving our food stamps, we had to make some tough choices. That’s when during a weekly visit, we learned of your program. Knowing that we had a resource that could help provide us with diapers during a challenging time in our life took so much stress off our already overloaded plate. We appreciate your service.

Sincerely, TB Family"

Licking County LEADS Program, Newark Ohio

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