Stick around Dallas Leadership Foundation (DLF) long enough, and you’ll learn that Christmas isn’t about snowmen or snowflakes, or finding the coolest holiday color palette. Sure, dedicated volunteers trick out our Treasures of Hope Christmas Store with ribbons, trees, and ornaments. We play Christmas carols, serve food, and offer all kinds of gifts from dolls to toy trucks to pajamas. We want the store’s setting to inspire warm holiday for the 600-900 Dallas families we serve every year.
All of these trimmings play second to Who is most important at Treasures of Hope. Jesus is the reason for our Christmas store. The holiday get-up sets the stage, but the central focus is Him. Treasures of Hope is another opportunity for DLF to share Jesus. Our prayer always has been that they experience His love through us.
Because this is our point of view, it’s interesting to read Christmas-related chatter this past week on social media. Concerns about commercializing Christmas reached new highs it seemed. The controversy revolved around whether the Christmas spirit is preeminent enough on coffee cups or kept sacred enough on T-Shirts.
To us, celebrating Jesus with Dallas families at Treasures of Hope is deeper than that. Or, to say it another way, we discover a far more eternal perspective of Christmas by putting Jesus first and serving others. When we remember the smiles of the shoppers, their stories of struggle and triumph, and how we introduced some of them to Jesus for the first time – we’re thankful for the chance to share the sweetness of celebrating the Lord Himself.
If you’re interested in helping us help others in a Jesus-centric Christmas environment, learn more about Treasures of Hope at dlftx.org.The store opens Monday, Dec. 14!
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