WRITE THE LETTERS, EAT THE MUFFINS, TAKE A NAP

This is a great day to get out your favorite fountain pen and your best stationery and write at least three letters.
I just think it is important to put some ink on paper every once in a while. We all really need to one up Hallmark, America Greeting and Gibson and write at least a one-page letter to someone that is important to us.

If you are in any way like me, you will have a hard time stopping at just one page. I sometimes do go on.
Although I generally jazz up the recipient's Name in some fancy letters, I do my best to send them content. You know, the kind of thing they are interested in. In my case, the twins and the GRANDCHILDREN. Most of us are aware of the news and weather leaving large gaps in the area of "small talk".
So, I try to share my feelings and hopes about how their life is going, how their faith is holding up and offer some encouragement and humor about something funny that the precious GRANDCHILDREN have gotten into.

I also report on any projects, tell them about any new discoveries and current good books.

If I have any new photos of the GRANDCHILDREN I enclose them and also put some bits and pieces or pictures of any art that I have been working on, if I think that would be of any interest to my reader. Then I fold the letter and seal the envelope and trust it to the USPS for delivery. Even with the recent rate hike, I figure that having a letter delivered is still a bargain – it's only a penny or two a day for the delivery. The rest of the money they charge is for storage. [Drum roll … ba da bing!]

I really enjoy imagining their receiving and reading my note and looking at the enclosures. Even as I write the letter I am already in their home having the conversation with them. I am smelling a meal I have eaten there or hearing the home filled with laughter or maybe shared grief – or both of the extremes and all of life in between. At least that is the connection I get from writing letters.
I really can't forsake the habit of offering a benediction as I close out the letters. It generally makes us both remember that our lives are linked by our Purpose of being here to serve God and others.

As I get to know you I am sure that these posts will get more and more personal and we will get to know one another better.

I really do want you to write those letters and you know who deserves them.


And you do remember the Plum Muffin recipe that I gave you a few weeks ago.

After you have written your letters and washed your hands, get out the ingredients that I am sure you have in your pantry, and get to it. Or, you could drag out the crunchy little pack of Nekots.

Write the letters.
Eat the muffins.
Take a nap.
 It's Sunday. Bless you. © Tim www.timjohnsonphoto.com