Valentine's Day: some people love it, some people hate it, and some people won't even realize they missed it. For me the holiday once more brought a tradition I find quite amusing, but am still slightly baffled about. Every year on Valentine's Day couples come into Target and do their wedding registry. I haven't decided if this is planned by a guy who is thoughtful and this is his post "will you marry me?" present, if she was so excited that she canceled his elaborate date plans to get to work fulfilling her wedding dreams she's held since she was 3 months old, or if he's simply run out of ideas on what to do on Valentine's day and this is his clever way of getting out of spending a bunch of money on a fancy date. Regardless, the sight of a happy couple zipping through our store with their little red scanner, trying to milk their friend's for all their worth, has become a staple in my Valentine's Day experience.
As you know from last week, for the month of February I'm going through little challenges I do to push myself and grow in my walk and asking you to join me each week. This week, to coincide with the holiday, the challenge is quite simple, but one I find very encouraging for everyone involved. Pick one person you prayed for last week, and send them a letter. Detail what you love about them, what you prayed about for them, and anything else you want to include to encourage them. (Scriptures, inspirational stories, details about your current happenings, cooking recipes you hope they'll make you in response to your letter, coupons you have that you'll never use and would otherwise consider junk-mail but have now turned into encouragement gifts, old bubble gum you found while cleaning out your baseball card collection last week; you know, real inspirational stuff.)
There are a couple of rules, though. 1) It has to be via snail mail. Emails are great, but there's something about getting a letter in the mail that isn't junk or a bill that's very exciting. Even if it just says "hey", the recipient is likely to be seen jumping through their house and crying tears of joy before hanging the letter on their fridge and then skipping to work. That means you'll have to dig out your buried box of envelopes and probably add a couple 1 cent stamps to yours since the price of stamps goes up about once a week. (I think it's like 35 dollars now, right?) And 2) You have to mail it, not drop it off. Even though it may be cheaper with stamp prices so high to just drive it there yourself, mailing it means more and adds to the surprise of finding that gem amongst the dribble we call mail.
So go on, get writing. Dig deep and pick a person you may not normally contact. And if you find you like it, send off a few more. Everyone loves encouragement.
2 PETER 3:1-2 - NIV (click to read)
THINGS TO NOTE: ???? (Do to the move I don't have my Church calendar accessable, so I'm not sure what's going on this week. Here's my best guess!
THIS WEEK:
Monday - never saw me dancing on Saturday. AND NEITHER DID YOU. Capeesh?
Tuesday- Write those letters! Remember to stretch them fingers if you haven't done any old fashioned writing in a while. Texting and typing use different muscles, so be sure to warm up.
Wednesday – Normal 7:00 Midweek at the FQ (I think?)
Thursday – Pray, pray, pray.
Friday- Activity: TBA
Saturday – is supposedly a day off. Riiiiiiiiiiiiiight...
Sunday - Normal 10:00 Sunday Service at the MSC
Brett "For another piece of Daine's cake I'd go dancing again. But it'd have to be a piece the size of a small child" Hibbler
great share, great article, very usefull for me...thank you
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