I love giving them. I REALLY love receiving them. I love that I have to take the time to go through my list of loved ones and update them. I love remembering fun memories with each special person or family as I make my way through the list.
As I was making my way through my list the other day, my heart just shattered as I read my grandmother's name next to my grandfathers. Oh how I wanted to send her my Christmas card! Oh how I wanted her to know what was going on in my life. But I scratched her name off the list...
It wasn't long before I came to another name on the list that needed to be scratched off...and another and another. My heart was just sad as I realized how much death we've seen this year. I was heartbroken thinking of loved ones spending their first holiday without their loved one.
As I was feeling a little sorry for the world and the loss of such good people this year, I started adding the names of new little ones who had come or were coming into the world this year. One after another after another after another...name after name after name. People I had prayed for, people I had grieved with in the loss of many pregnancies. I added more than 50 new babies to our list!
I also added fiancees and husbands and wives, and changed address to new and exciting places.
It's so strange to summarize a years worth of relationships in one list, but it made me grateful to see that the Lord takes away, but he also gives:-)
I don't know if this helps your decision but shutterfly is doing 50 free cards for bloggers! You can go to my blog to see the details:)
ReplyDeleteI LOVED your Christmas card. It got prime placement on the refrigerator. (Babies and sweet, happy family pictures trump dogs and letters every time.) I haven't sent cards because I always think, "No one wants pictures of Michael, me, and our fully grown cat." But the thinking-of-you part is nice, so maybe I'll do it at a time other than the holidays.
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