The mailbox is my favorite place through the month of December. Every day it is filled with cards, stuffed envelopes and packages from all over the world. I keep all the cards and letters in a special rose painted box we have, and sit down almost every night to read a few of the letters, to think of the friends who wrote me, and perheps send up a prayer for the persons. I am a letter writer all through the year, but December is still something very special. And many of the cards have such lovely prayers or quatations. Like this one I got a few days ago:
"Peace on Earth the Angel sung, and the joyful Heavens rung, let our Hearts repeat again, Peace on Earth God will to men"
Or "At Christmas we reach across time and space To share God's love and His marvelous grace" (Helen Steiner Rice)
The other day a very special advent gift was in my mailbox, with the theme "snowflakes". Since other people might get the same gift I am not going to tell the name of the giver, but I want to send her a HUGE thank you!
And here are a few snowflake quotes: "Like a great poet, nature knows how to produce the greatest effects with the nost limited means" (Heinrich Heine)
"Out of the bosom of the air, out of the cloud-folds of her garments shaken. Over the woodlands brown and bare, over the harvest-fields forsaken, silent and soft, slow, decends the snow" (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
Snow Towards the Evening. Suddenly the sky turned gray. The day, Whivh had been bitter and still. Quietly From some invisible blossoming tree Millions of petals cool and white Drifted and blew, Lifted and flew, Fell with the falling night" (Melville Cane)
