Count Your Blessings #27 – Cards that say Thank You

Yesterday morning I gave a talk at a breakfast for men that a team of guys from church put together. We have done these breakfasts a couple of times now and this time it was my turn to do the talk.

Afterwards I had some really nice feedback from a number of the guys. This morning one of the members of the team had gone to the effort of writing me a card to say thank-you. There is something about receiving a card that makes the sentiment more meaningful somehow. Why is that? The logical part of me says that it’s because I know subconsciously that it’s easy for people to say thank-you but it takes more effort to write a card. I’m not sure that this simple logical really goes far enough though. If that was all there was to it an email would have the same feeling, but it doesn’t.

I think that receiving a card has so much more to it because there is more to it than just the effort that has gone into it. A card reminds us of all of the pleasurable times of our life, birthdays with jelly and ice-cream and Christmas in the snow (not that we see snow around here very often). A card reminds us of all of the special people in our life. A card reminds us of our own searching for that card that says the right thing in the right words. A card reminds us of all of the cards that we have sent and the faces on those who we have sent them to.

Cards are blessings that work two ways – giving them is a blessing, receiving them is a blessing.