Recently I have been going through boxes of old cards and letters and thinning them out, getting rid of some, holding on to others. Today I pulled a box down from a shelf and opened it to find a stash of memories from around 1998. Christmas cards, with postage stamps that are marked “32 cents”…remember those?
What touched me was this handmade card from Patsy, a very dear friend in Illinois. Behind this cute little bear are the words “From the Heart”.
We live in such a different world, don’t we? Here you are reading this electronic message
on a blog and we email, text, post on Facebook, tweet on Twitter, and send our communications in such diverse ways. In 1998 I was happy to send an email once in a while, not as a daily, frequent occurrence. And we are all watching as the postal service changes, cuts back, and we wonder about the cost of sending out these cards and letters.
All these advances in technology affect us in both good and bad ways. I firmly believe that what we all long for, what we may be starving for, are message from the heart. Messages that tell us how you really are doing, tell what you have learned or how you have been blessed. Sincere, heart felt, full of love.
I’m so grateful for friends like Patsy who take the time to send us messages like the one pictured here. We had moved into a new home hours away from Illinois and messages from those we love and had worked with really helped us get through a time of change.
How about you? Are you a card and letter keeper like me? Have you found messages that lift your spirits and touch your soul?
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