Blessed Are the Slow

Scripture reminds us that love—and loving communication—is patient.
I have a box of letters that my husband wrote to me while we were dating last year. Traveling from Tennessee to South Carolina and back again, these paper conversations established our friendship, growing mutual trust, and admiration. Getting to know a person this way is reasonably outdated. It could have happened a hundred years ago. But for us it was new.
Letters are an old-fashioned practice worth preserving. Unli