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Connecting with Cards

Connecting with Cards

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My granddaughter celebrated her fourth birthday this week with her mom, dad, and toddler brother. At home. No grandparents there. No friends. Just the four of them. All because of the COVID-19 crisis. The planned birthday party at an indoor play area is rescheduled for October.

 

During a video call days prior to her birthday, Isabelle excitedly shared that she would have a pink cake—her favorite color—frosted and decorated with unicorn sprinkles. I marveled at her joy as she twirled in a vivid multi-hued tulle skirt shipped to Minnesota from her aunt and uncle in Los Angeles. She didn’t seem at all disappointed in the change of party plans. “I’m celebrating with my family,” Izzy said. I inwardly thanked her parents for focusing their daughter’s thoughts on what she would still have, not on what she’d lose.

 

But this grandma was experiencing a sense of loss in missing the celebration. I decided I could feel sad or I could do something to make my granddaughter’s birthday even better. So, with my daughter’s permission, I reached out to family and friends and asked them to mail birthday cards to Isabelle. Many have never met her. But we all enjoy getting cards in the mail. I knew Izzy would, too.

 

There’s something about a card selected, signed, and sent that connects on such a personal level. The very act of taking the time to complete the process shows you care. Now more than ever during this global pandemic, we can use greeting cards to celebrate long-distance and to encourage others. So many of us are feeling alone, isolated, and anxious. A greeting card, especially when it includes scripture and an added personal note, can uplift, give hope, bring peace. Warner Press offers such messages in its beautiful boxed greeting cards.

 

As I viewed options online, I thanked God for our gifted writers, artists, editors, designers, and printers who craft these cards conveying love, care, and concern. In the encouragement line, you’ll find a wide selection of cards with themes like “Hope in God’s Promises,” “Building You Up,” “Hope Blooms,” and more. The art varies from lovely florals to nature to symbols of strength, like stone. I especially appreciate the fun-loving “Fur Baby Love” cards featuring baby animals. Those simply make me smile. And we all need to smile more these days.

 

Other Warner Press cards—in the Miss You, Thinking of You, and Praying for You lines—are good choices, too, for those people in your life who could use extra encouragement. That would be all of us right now. Maybe this can be your ministry, starting today, during this health crisis and continuing thereafter. My granddaughter’s other grandma has, for years, mailed greeting cards to a seemingly infinite list of people. I especially appreciate the cards Lynn sends to my octogenarian mom at her senior living care center. Those cards are even more meaningful to seniors isolated from family and friends by visitor restrictions and social distancing. What joy a card in the mail brings them.

 

A card is something you can hold onto long after you receive it. You can read and reread it. And every time you do that, you are reminded that someone cares about you, loves you. I expect Izzy will sort through her stash of birthday cards often. She’s already shown me, via our video call, a balloon-themed card mailed by my friend Valerie. Beth Ann sent her a handcrafted hippo card. Warner Press offers a wide selection of birthday cards for all ages, including cards for kids that fun-loving Izzy of the pink-birthday-cake-with-unicorn-sprinkles would simply love.

 

I invite you to scroll through the vast selection of boxed greeting cards at Warner Press, order our products shipped right to your home, and launch your card ministry today.



Audrey Kletscher Helbling

Audrey Kletscher Helbling writes from southern Minnesota, where she keeps greeting cards she’s received for longer than she cares to admit. Her work for Warner Press began years ago with writing greeting card verses. She feels blessed to now lead the company’s blogging ministry. 




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