{"id":9301,"date":"2023-12-23T11:54:11","date_gmt":"2023-12-23T16:54:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.donnacooperoboyle.com\/blog\/?p=9301"},"modified":"2024-01-24T15:41:23","modified_gmt":"2024-01-24T20:41:23","slug":"i-didnt-know-who-would-open-the-card","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.donnacooperoboyle.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/23\/i-didnt-know-who-would-open-the-card\/","title":{"rendered":"I didn&#8217;t know who would open the card &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I don&#8217;t always think to put a Christmas card out for our mail carrier. After all, we have several carriers and also substitutes. How would I know to whom it would or should go? How many are needed? How would I address it? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Add to that, I wondered if the card would get lost in the shuffle and dropped into the post office mailbox by mistake. I had placed a bunch of Christmas cards in my mailbox to be mailed one day. 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What made you think I&#8217;d know them?&#8221; I was a bit puzzled because they live about an hour&#8217;s distance away. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Well, they told me that you were going to speak in &#8216;such and such place&#8217; awhile back and I told them I thought that you were on my mail route!&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Wow!&#8221; I think I said to him after learning this interesting &#8220;coincidence.&#8221; Suddenly a thought popped into my head. <em>Did he find the card in our mailbox awhile back or someone else? Should I ask him? Maybe not, because he might not have been the one. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Before I could ask though, he said, &#8220;Thank you for the Christmas card and note, by the way.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Ahh!<\/em> I thought.<em><strong> He<\/strong> was the one that got the card.<\/em> <em>It didn&#8217;t get lost after all. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I had left a Christmas card addressed to &#8220;Our Mail Carrier&#8221; for whomever was going to find it. 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But just showing you which card it was.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.donnacooperoboyle.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/IMG_5186-scaled.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"715\" src=\"https:\/\/www.donnacooperoboyle.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/IMG_5186-1024x715.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9304\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.donnacooperoboyle.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/IMG_5186-1024x715.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.donnacooperoboyle.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/IMG_5186-300x209.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.donnacooperoboyle.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/IMG_5186-768x536.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.donnacooperoboyle.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/IMG_5186-1536x1073.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/www.donnacooperoboyle.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/IMG_5186-2048x1430.jpeg 2048w, https:\/\/www.donnacooperoboyle.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/IMG_5186-430x300.jpeg 430w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Our mail carrier made mention again about the card. He said he had been away from church for a while now and he knows he needs to get back. He said the holy card touched his heart.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>AND, he happened to open my Christmas card in front of his Mother and her eyes caught sight of the holy card. She said, &#8220;You see!!!&#8221; She had been asking him to get back to church. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As you can imagine, my heart was rejoicing &#8212; so very happy that my little gesture of love could touch someone&#8217;s heart and that it meant something profound to him. He then told me he&#8217;d like to talk with me more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I ran inside to get my business card to give to him so that he could get in touch. He then reminded me, &#8220;Well, I&#8217;ll see you again! I still have to deliver that second package!&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I didn&#8217;t want to delay him. No doubt, he had a busy day of deliveries ahead of him. 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