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HONORING SENIORS
My Love Letters
fell in love through by Kandy Persall
correspondence -
I the paper and ink
kind.
I met my pen-
pal on a domestic
flight. We attended
neighboring colleges
and reconnected over a
few coffee dates before Inspiration
our summer schedules
began. Airlines
may have parted us
internationally, but
air letters endeared us
emotionally.
The outside of our
letters was nothing to believe in the man through do I seek for the source?
special. Called aerograms, his printed word. When He repeats a theme, do
they were simply pre- Years later, I still own every I stop to meditate? And when
stamped pages, gummed on one of the letters. Tucked He proclaims His great love,
the edge to create their own away in a battered stationary do I tremble with praise and
envelope. They were created box, these Asian-stamped wonder?
to carry news between nations pages are some of my most
at an inexpensive rate. But precious possessions - notice I One day, we will no longer
those addressed to me that say “possessions”, as I rarely need faith to see through
summer were anything but read them anymore. They the darkened glass of life.
ordinary. They weren’t mere are still sentimental, but I no One day, we will no longer
ramblings of the day but longer need these pages to need hope to keep us waiting
rather heart-felt ponderings learn about the author. Now, eagerly. And one day, we will
with dreams, hopes, and I live with him full-time. no longer read of His Love
plans peppered throughout. for we will live full-time with
As I hold God’s Word in my the Author.
When I received one, I hoped hands, I realize this too is
for another. With each letter, a love letter. Written over Yet until that day, we must
I meditated extensively the course of centuries, God hold to these three: faith,
upon any portion I didn’t shares His Heart, His dreams, hope, and love, all found in
understand. When my pen- and His plans with words that the Spirit of His Word. May
pal quoted a book, I read the come to life as I read them. we fall in love with Him
book in its entirety. When through reading His Words
he referenced a Scripture, I But, does my delight match and by uttering our response
studied the verse. And when my experience with those through prayer. May we
he signed “with love,” I simple aerograms? When God desire to know Him as fully
trembled with delight. I came quotes an obscure reference, as He knows each of us.
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