When letters arrive with no return address on the envelope, my immediate assumption is almost always correct: Someone has written a scathing piece of hate mail and does not have the courage to allow a response to that hate.
Almost always.
But then there are other times when things are radically different, and I end up so very glad to have opened the mail. Such was the case this past week when a letter arrived from Chattanooga from a reader of my recent column on “The ‘Secret’ to Spiritual Success.”
The sweet writer of the letter, Janette, is almost 80 years old and not able to get to church much anymore. She wrote, “I enjoy your columns.” And then, in words sure to put a smile on any preacher’s face, “I like to read five chapters in Psalms every day, one chapter in Proverbs, a few chapters in the Old Testament and a few chapters in the New Testament.”
Wow. What a pattern for everyone to follow!