I have always loved stationary, kind of an addiction to buy it. I love to send and get snail mail. Something about seeing that scribbled note with pen on a paper seems to connect you to the sender or recipient in a personal way. There is so much room for improvement for me to send more and connect more…one of the bazillion areas in my life to work on…but none the less, when a stamp is placed and the red flag goes up on the mailbox, I am a little closer to one of my goals. No matter if you are a master calligrapher, a free hand writer, or your handwriting resembles that of a chicken, it connects you to the person you are thinking about as you write. This is true when the letter is sent to far off places, or just through town. It is even true if you are no longer here. Jason and I have been gathering information for our annual Leader Training Series in Kinetic. Today is the final meeting and we are training on altar work, counseling, and mentoring. There is only one place we knew to look for material. Tania’s notes. One of my favorite things when I got a new IKEA filing cabinet, was going through all of my retreat notes, and finding her retreat notes, her Titus 2 woman notes, her Raising Godly Kids notes and her altar and counseling notes. There is so much wisdom in my filing cabinet it’s ridiculous. Now just getting it out and applying it (that could preach). Jason and I had such a great time reading through (passing papers back and forth to help decipher words) and gleaning wisdom from these handwritten pages. We laughed at the fact of paper filing and all the legal pad papers with all the scribbles and arrows. In these days everything is stored digitally, in which as in most things these days, I believe we have lost our connections. I challenge you, get our your paper and pens, color pencils, crayons or markers. Write someone a letter, if just to say hi! You will brighten their day and connect in a more personal way!
Oak and Pines 