"Make it your ambition to lead a quiet life and attend to your own business and work with your hands........" 1 Thessalonians 4:11

Wednesday, May 11, 2016

"No Matter How Fast Computer and Email Is, " she said,

"Let's Always Write Long Letters To Each Other"
..... although I love the fast response of email...........I agreed with my dear friend,...... 
and every month, or whenever the mood struck..........for years................I would write a long letter to her, describing my day, my life, my world..........the news of children growing too quickly, of ideas and dreams ,of happiness and tears, ....often placing  a pressed flower or leaf from the gardens.........sometimes a feather, dropped from a wild bird,  flying in the woods........... between the pages and then sealing and finding the right stamp ...........and then dropping  it into the mail box........
waiting anxiously for a thick stuffed envelope the following week, in response from her.

I remember the day her daughter called to tell me that she was suddenly gone...........
no more anxious waiting and checking in the mail box.........
no more letters to write.
It's been years since she has passed..............I still have letters that she had once sent........ full and fat,
with words of new job offers, romance and marriages happening,  grand babies on the way, the death of a husband, a promise to come visit soon.......... and flower petals from a brilliant colored rose that once bloomed in her garden. 
Now I am not anxious to wait for the mail.........for a bill, or advertisement.
My old weathered mail box , that was once used before having to chose a post office box.........
seems as lonely as I do for just one more letter.  
I place some of my garden flowers inside of it to cheer us both up.
How about you?  Do you still love pretty stationary and writing pens? Do you have someone to write long letters to ?  Or does your busy schedule lure you to email for fast response?
 I would love to hear.