Thursday, May 14, 2009

Support Letters

The first batch of support letters are about to go out, and I'm pretty nervous.

The process of creating the support letter, the support cards, the envelopes, etc. has been yet another interesting experience. I've never done this, and I want to make sure I do this correctly.
While I was typing and printing letters and envelopes, I would check the names on the letters with the names on the envelopes, then check them again, then fold the letter and put it in the envelope.
I was so afraid that I had put the wrong name in the wrong envelope, so I checked them yet again.
Half way through doing this I realized I didn't sign them!
Now I'm nervous about the color of the pen; should it be black, to be professional, or should it be blue...to add some color to the letter...and seeing as blue is one of the colors of the UK...?

Should I take off the picture of the UK...or should I leave it to keep it interesting?
What about the placement of the stamp?
Am I going to put it on correctly, or am I going to screw it up somehow?

After I've stuffed and sealed each envelope, I'm going to pray two things:
1) that God's will be done with these letters, and
2) that if I screwed anything up that God would perform a miracle and fix it before they arrive in the hands of their owner(s).

::sigh::

I do this all of the time. I want to make sure that it really is 5:00 that I go into work, so I check my e-mail. Then I check the schedule that I printed out to make sure something funky didn't happen with the printer. Then I set about 8 different alarms to make sure I start getting ready at the right time.

I also worry about the dumbest things ever, like the weight of the paper. Are these people going to notice that the paper that I'm printing on isn't office-quality copy/multipurpose paper? Chances are yes, and chances are they aren't going to care. What about the envelopes? What kind of stamps am I going to use? What about the support cards? What about...and then...and what if...and....

Lord God make me chill out before my head explodes. It doesn't matter if I have the picture of a monkey on the stamp or if I use cardstock with a watermark. Just get the letters out there and let God do the rest!

So a few letters and envelopes later, with the addition of a soap opera on mute and 80's music playing in the background, I'm almost ready to send out my first support letters. We'll see what God does with them.

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