To my very dearest, sweetest readers of this blog!!!
Oh my word. You all jumped into the “Lift Someone Up Challenge” with eyes wide open and full of excitement. And I cannot express to you how much it inspired me to keep on going.
I wrote 32 letters this past month and every single one of them was from my heart and made me so incredibly happy to drop in the mail box. I was completely blown away with how it made me feel, how it made others feel, AND how it made each of you feel to join in the challenge.
A few things I did as the month went on:
- In the beginning I wrote my notes according to the order of names I had on my list. BUT, after a couple weeks I started scanning my list and writing my daily letter to the person that jumped out at me that day. It made the letters feel more genuine and heartfelt (to me anyway).
- I had a friend going through a hard month and I wrote a note to her three different times. I decided that it didn’t have to be a different person each day, if I felt someone really needed the continual “I’m still here if you need me” note I wrote to them again.
- I included on my list, and in my cards sent, the people I tend to talk to most every day…. my sister, my mom, my close friends. Originally (other than my Momma) I thought “I talk to them almost every day, I don’t need to send a note”. But guess what? Come to find out, I did need to do that!
- I didn’t let myself, one single time, feel like I didn’t have time, or that it was a burden or hardship to take a few minutes to write my note.
- I put together a little letter writing “kit” and took it with me to Arizona for the 8 days we were traveling. By doing that, there was no problem keeping up.
And now, let’s talk about the comments I received from my blog post last month. I would encourage you all to stop and go back to that blog post (click here to get there quickly!) and read all the comments. You guys… I cried reading a lot of them. They are beautiful, heartwarming and could be a blog post all their own. Please go read them.
Lastly, I learned something that I already knew, but needed the reminder:
BE KIND!!!!
We all have hard things. Some people have VERY hard things. For some, the struggle of daily living is a hard thing. And honestly, all it takes is a very simple act of kindness to lift up and encourage. Every one of us needs kindness. And these simple little notes that we sent out each day was an act of kindness. I don’t know about you, but that kindness came back to me in spades!
So… we have two winners of a set of my own greeting cards. And oh how I wish I could send every single one of you a set of cards! (But don’t stop reading after you see the winners because I have another surprise at the bottom of this post!).
So I let the computer do a random drawing and the the two winners are:
Vicky Mullins and Dianna/suny58
I have emailed you both for your addresses! If you do not receive an email from me, let me know at: redfeedsack@gmail.com
NOW for the very exciting news!!!!! Because this has been such a great hit and so many of you have commented on my blog post and many have emailed me…
I am offering another GIVEAWAY and this one is BIG!
I mentioned the letter writing “kit” I made for myself… well I made two of them and one is reserved for one of YOU! To enter, you have a specific question to answer! I will pull the assistance of my recently graduated and amazing grand-daughter to read all your comments and actually choose the winner according to her favorite answer! So… here is the question:
In all the letters you wrote this past month, what was the most special response you got from someone that received a letter from you?
Let me know in the comments! And next month we will have a winner of a really awesome letter writing kit, custom made by me!
I’ll close here… with a really, really tight hug to each and every one of you!
Until our gravel roads cross again… so long.
Dori
Weekly Blogs and Recipes