I still send Christmas cards for 3 important reasons

Why we should still send Christmas cards

Christmas cards are so much more than a shiny, folded piece of paper. A quickly read sentiment. They have the ability to alter someone’s life.

May I make the case for continuing this tradition of sending and receiving real, paper cards?

We are busy. I get that.

I am taking a stand today, in rebellion against the countless articles and statements that say we are too busy for this old-fashioned practice.

Bah-humbug to that!

Christmas is doing a little something extra for someone. Charles M. Schulz

Reason #1 to send Christmas cards

People, relationships matter. We move across countries, continents. We change jobs, marry, suffer loss and celebrate great joy. Sometimes all we have is this simple card to catch up. It matters to people. It matters to me.

I want to know how you are, to see your handwritten name (please, not just a stamp), to know you are ok. I want you to know that you matter to me when you receive mine.

Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see. C. S. Lewis

Reason #2 to send Christmas Cards

We are not designed to be Scrooge. Just because a national glossy tells you to cross people off your list if you don’t hear back in a few years, well, I contend that we send not to receive, but to give.

This gesture of goodwill is not designed to be a game where we count. A scoreboard of how many people like us as much as we like them. Let’s send them because we can. Because we have hearts of love and generosity…

Sending a handwritten letter is becoming such an anomaly. It’s disappearing. My mom is the only one who still writes me letters. And there’s something visceral about opening a letter – I see her on the page. I see her in her handwriting. -Steve Carell

Reason #3 to send Christmas Cards

This brings me to my final point. Generosity. Have we considered that those cards might be all the Christmas cheer someone receives? Someone might be housebound, unable to be out in the hustle and bustle.

That piece of paper becomes a ministry. There is someone who might feel no one remembers her this year, a man who is burdened with responsibilities. That simple card might, just might, remind someone of why we celebrate. Love

My mom used to keep all her Christmas cards in a basket bedecked with red ribbon, and I loved to look at them all and read all the letters.- Elizabeth Berg

Is sending Christmas cards worth it?

Are we too busy for cards? Are they a hassle?

Maybe. But then I pause, and reconsider, and decide to pull out my pens and stamps.

Because it can make a difference.

Christmas is the spirit of giving without a thought of getting. It is happiness because we see joy in people. It is forgetting self and finding time for others. It is discarding the meaningless and stressing the true values.- Thomas S. Monson

Christmas Resources:

• If you can’t make it to the store, you can find stamps and cards easily online!
• God Hears Her, A Joyful Christmas: 31 Morning and Evening Devotions
• Have Yourself a Minimalist Christmas: Slow Down, Save Money & Enjoy a More Intentional Holiday
• Our Christmas Story: A Modern Christmas Memory Book 
• Everybody Always: Becoming Love in a World Full of Setbacks and Difficult People
• Why the Nativity?: 25 Compelling Reasons We Celebrate the Birth of Jesus
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