Thank
each of you for the cards and other communications wishing me and my family a
Merry Christmas. We stopped sending Christmas Cards some years ago. Serving
several churches with many members, it became impossible to include everyone.
Author Richard Armour wrote, “You
cannot reach perfection though you try however hard to, there’s always one more
friend or so you should have sent a card to.” Over 150 years ago Sir Henry
Cole, founder of the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, had so many
Christmas greetings to send that hand writing them was impossible. So in 1843
he commissioned a painter to paint a card wishing a Merry Christmas and Happy
New Year. He could then send copies of the card to all he needed to contact. So
the first Christmas card was born in England. For more than 30 years Americans
had to import Christmas Cards from there. Today, in our country, Christmas cards
have grown into a six billion annual business.
Christmas cards have thus far
resisted the paperless revolution of email. An email or text message doesn’t
seem to have the same significance as a hard copy card. But please allow me to use this blog to wish each of you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. And this
greeting is quite sincere as I think of you individually. “I thank my God upon every remembrance of
you.” (Philippians 1:3)
Grace
and peace.
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