Thank you cards
My husband, David, tossed a little envelope
at me yesterday. He chuckled and said
to read it.
Let's see....Pete left on his mission in 1995!
This thank you card from the Halls was
written 17 years ago. David Halls was looking
for something in a box of missionary memorabilia
and found a stack of these cards. He was passing
them out to people he could find and gave
one to David.
We laughed. But I thought about it and
the fact that they had written their thank you
cards after their wedding. I imagine they wrote them
and they set them aside waiting for the money
for stamps or they may have been buried
and forgotten. But what was lost was
found and delivery was made all these
years later.
They show gratitude and consideration
for other people. They are important.
They are more important to be written
and sent than to be received.
It does more for the person who
has received a gift than the person
who has given the gift. It is more
important to give than to receive.
But it is also important to say
thank you for gifts given.
It isn't a duty or attention to
good manners ~though it is that, too,
it is a matter of the heart.
To express thank you to another
says so much about ourselves
and the love we have for others.
I listened as my daughter-in-law, Connie,
helped her daughter, Abbey, write
a thank you card to me this past
Thanksgiving. It was so sweet. Those
little hands wrote sweet words of
gratitude. I loved the card and I loved
the character building moment for Abbey.
Character matters and I see
character in thank you cards.
