Christmas Cards

I am so very thankful for Christmas cards.

I haven’t sent any cards out from our own family for years and years.  I hate that I never do this.  I am so thankful to those who send one year after year even when we don’t reciprocate.  I simply love and anticipate each and every one.

As a former teacher, I remember years of making a bulletin board out of my collection by lining each one up side by side in a collage that displayed the creative artistry and message.  Those were days before family postcards.  But, what a beautiful assortment of family photos we’re now collecting, too.

It’s also been fun to cut some of them up in shapes and place each one in their own envelope for individual puzzle games. We race to put together the beautiful message of one friend for peace in our world.  We hurry to put together one family’s tidings of comfort and joy.  Wishes for miracles of Christmas joy comes from another.

For 200 years we have been sending and receiving traditional messages by mail during this holy season with snow covered churches, angels perched atop twinkling Christmas trees, a star illuminating the nativity and Jesus laying in a manger.

What a beautiful tradition.

What often comes through these cards is the light of hope and the sentiments of faith.

In fact, “There is a light of heaven that has broken upon us to give light to those who sit in darkness and guide us to the the path of peace”.

Sometimes this light comes in the mailbox.

Luke 1:78-79