A Gift for the King"I tell you the truth, whatever you did for one of the least of these my brothers, you did for me." Matthew 25:40I was browsing through the aisle of a craft store, looking for a fun project to do with my granddaughters, when a Nifty Knitters set caught my eye. There were four colorful, concentric, round looms nestled attractively in a clear carrying bag.Soon my 6-year-old granddaughter and I were happily winding yarn around the pegs on the looms and making stocking caps. The caps were easy to make, and before long a few residents and staff members here at the nursing home were making caps, also. Together we made about 40 caps that we put in our Operation Christmas Child shoeboxes. When the shoebox project was completed, we kept making caps.We showed the caps to our friends from Southwestern Youth Services in Magnolia, and it turned out that they also were interested in learning to knit. We purchased more looms, and with the boys’ help we’ve knit more than 200 stocking caps. Our most recent projects have been to give the caps to Union Gospel Mission in Sioux Falls and also to the SYS boys’ families. Over the years we’ve had more yarn donated to us at MJB than we thought we’d ever use, but the day came recently when the yarn supply was gone. SYS put an ad in the paper asking for donations and people responded — but now we’re getting low on yarn again and are thinking up other ways to keep our supply strong.Spring will be coming soon — and during the summer people won’t need stocking caps — but we’ll keep on knitting because next winter it will be cold again and we’ll have caps ready for people who need them. It is exciting for us to think of our stocking caps traveling around the world with Operation Christmas Child or lifting the spirits of someone who might be homeless or struggling financially. It is such a simple thing to knit a cap while riding in the car or watching TV. It is a small thing for us to do and yet God tells us that our gifts are important — each cap we knit is a gift to Him. The Bible says that at the last day the King will say, "I tell you the truth, whatever you did for one of the least of these my brothers, you did for me." Matthew 25:40Here we are in the season between Christmas and Easter — the two holidays we celebrate to remember the Greatest Gift ever given — the gift of Jesus our Savior. As we remember His gift to us, we thank Him for giving us wonderful and creative ways to give our gifts back to Him. Who would have thought that something as simple as making a stocking cap could be a gift for our King?