September 14, 2026 - Good Morning! It’s Monday, September 14
I’m an avid collector, and one of the items I like to collect is postcards, particularly ones with interesting messages written on them. For a long time, postcards have been mainly sent by people on vacation. On one side is a picture of their hotel or the Grand Canyon or the Eiffel Tower, and on the other a message like “wishing you were here!” That kind of postcard always struck me as a bit cruel, since it was being sent to someone who was not on vacation and most certainly was not “here.”
But if you look at earlier postcards from, say, the early 1900’s, you’ll often find a very different type of communication. Back then postcards were used, by many people, in the same way we use texting today - for quick communication. If you lived in a city, your mail was probably delivered twice a day, seven days a week. You didn’t have a telephone, and a postcard was a lot cheaper than a telegram. And so I have a postcard in my collection with the cryptic message - “Meet me tomorrow at noon at the corner of Main and Seventh Street.“ I was always intrigued by that message. Who were these two people? And why were they meeting? If I was a better writer I could have turned that postcard into a short story or even a novel. I don’t think the message would seem nearly as mysterious if it was just a text.
And so, the technology of communication has changed. But one thing that has never changed, and never will, is the instinctual need for human beings to share their thoughts and feelings, to share themselves, with other human beings. And God gave us that desire. He created us that way. And He has much to say in His Word about sharing ourselves with others. In Romans 13:15, Paul encourages us to “rejoice with those who rejoice, and weep with those who weep.” And so we reach out, through phone calls and texts and social media and emails and notes and letters - and, yes, even postcards. And we try to connect the dots between two minds, between two hearts.
Meet you back here tomorrow,
David
cindertex50@yahoo.com
