Letters of Love

The letters we found, most of which we had never seen before, were stuffed inside a box in the back of the closet. They were not in the file cabinet my Father kept as neat as a pin in his office, but were tucked away in a secret place for his eyes only.

But, after my Mother's death, my Father remarried. I distinctly remember the day we moved everything out of his home. He took very little to his new bride's house so the remainder of his possessions were distributed to family and friends. His letters however came home with me.

I put them in our already overloaded garage to be dealt with along with volumes of other paperwork at a later date. The next year was a year of getting a lot of "stuff" out of the garage and that meant it was time to go through the stacks and stacks of my Fathers personal items.

It was a joyous time for me reading each and every letter written between my parents in a time when our world was at war and he was in Pearl Harbor. My oldest two siblings and my Mother and Father made up the family at that time and as I went through all of the pictures, souvenirs from Hawaii and the like, I sensed the closeness and love between them.

I will have to admit, it was a little strange to read love notes between the two, but it was also comforting because the distance between them at that time had not diminish their relationship, but rather stoked the fires of love. It was evident that they had each other on their minds.

Our days demand real time communications, but the art of expressing love through letters should never be lost. Even if those letters must be hand delivered at a later time, there is something soothing and releasing about penning our thoughts down on paper...a lost art which once stoked the love of my parents and probably our grandparents.

God's love letters to us have given us release from bondage, soothed our frustrated spirits and brought us into a relationship with the One who absolutely adores us. There is none who loves us more and who desires good things for us more that He.

His model to us as married couples is one of love. So, revive the art of letters, given to the one you love as He wrote to us, His bride.