Two Big Boxes of Mail

When returning from Seattle then back for a week, my wife said to me, "I don't want the mail delivered until we go to Portland and get back next week. I've paid all the bills so we should be fine."

So, even though this seemed sort of counterintuitive to me I did realize anything important people would just call us on our cell phones or home phone during the interim. And so far I was right. So, after 3 weeks of our mail collecting around Christmas time everyone and their little brother had sent us Christian foundation type of Christmas donation mail. My wife got tired separating two big boxes of mail after a couple of hours and asked me to finish and the part she left me was mostly large letters of Christian Canvassing mail. I found myself very moved by the sentiments written there and all the pictures of Jesus and Mary and Joseph with Jesus at all stages of life. I read some of the poems and one I was quite taken with is this one:

I said a prayer for you today,

I know God must have heard.

I felt the answer in my heart,

although He spoke no word.

I didn't ask for wealth or fame:

I knew you wouldn't mind.

I asked him to send treasures

of a far more lasting kind.

I asked that He'd be near you

at the start of each new day,

to grant you health and blessings

and friends to share the way.

I asked for happiness for you

in all things great and small.

But it was his loving care

I prayed for most of all.

I found this a most well written and touching poem so I decided to share it with you today even though I don't know who wrote this, and maybe that isn't important. Maybe it is the sentiment of Christian Brotherhood this Christmas Season that is most important of all.

With so many troubling things going on around the world sometimes it is nice to just find something that makes you feel a whole lot better.