Write the Dang Letter Already!

To write is to slow it down.....

I am a firm believer in the hand written note.  

To write a hand written note (which is becoming a lost art) you have to slow down, gather your thoughts, and take the time to actually write - if you can remember how.

You have to spell the words out (lol - brb - TO - rbmbct)...(btw - I made that long one up) (**)

You have to think about punctuation!!!! Which I am already challenged in.

Create complete thoughts...haha - I didn't mean to do that on purpose...how appropriate.

It really is becoming a lost art!

A handwritten note - even if you walk up and give it to me - means so much to me.  

     It means you took the time to find a decent  piece of paper.  This is a difficult thing in our house.

     You organized your thoughts and found the vocabulary to adequately express your feelings and what you wanted to convey to me.  

     Most of all - you took time, out of your busy schedule, to write down something that you wanted to share with me.  

How special does that make me feel... you shared something with me that was near and dear to your heart.  A sentiment, or something, possibly, that God directed you to share with me.  I love it!

And then, if you mailed it...well - that's another whole time consumption issue.

You have to sleuth out my address.

You have to create an envelope.  (Have you ever gotten a card or note and the envelope was way to big?  I love it - and of course I have done just that) and when I say create...I have actually cut an envelope out of newspaper before and mailed a letter in it.  (This was not done out of a spark of creativity)

You have to dig up a stamp from somewhere in the lost stamp land of the junk drawer.

It can be quite an endeavor just to mail a letter.

So, today, I dare you...double dare you...to sit down and write a letter.  

Maybe someone you knows needs encouragement.

I like to play a kind of "Russian Roulette" (did the Russians really invent that?) of note writing where I ask God to just impress on me someone and something to say.  It's quite interesting.

However you want to approach it..

 - sit down 

 - quiet your heart

 - gather your thoughts

and take the TIME to hand write a letter.

Love Your Guts,

Hug Your Babies,

Pray Big,

Janet :)

** the key to the above initials is ... "Laugh Out Loud", "Be Right Back", "Time Out", one that I made up, and btw is "by the way"  :)