December 24, 2007

Electronic Mail

What a wonderful age in which we live that the bits and bytes of the minutia of our lives can be transported through the flotsam and jetsam of the air to someone miles and miles away.

Not only the minutia but also the love.

With family so far away during not only holidays but everyday, a certain poignant longing for a more personal touch makes all forms of modern communication all the more important. We can't always drop what we are doing to fly around the country or even around the world to see those whose faces we long to see, to hold the hands of the ones who hold our heart or to simply be near the ones who mean so much to our days and nights.

I believe God inspired someone to find a way to keep in touch. Even though we cannot touch physically at all times, we can, through the various forms of communications touch through our hearts and that is enough to sustain us until the next time that we meet.

During this time of the year when hearts are drawn to home and family, it makes all the more precious the opportunity to tell those whom we love that we do indeed love them and that they mean so much more to us than we normally allow ourselves to say. Well, unless you grew up in my family, where telling people exactly how you feel is the soup du jour. There is no such thing as a bad time or the wrong way to say how you feel and to tell the ones who pull the strings of your heart just how much they mean and how deep love can grow within for those who may have started as strangers but have chosen to grow as family.

God bless us that we may see beyond the close called kith and kin and draw to ourselves the family of man who most assuredly needs the love we can offer and the warmth of our heart.

Merry CHRISTmas!

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