in him is the fullness of all things

Thou hast made us for thyself , O Lord, and our hearts are restless until they find their rest in thee. -Saint Augustine Short and sweet.

Think back...back to before texting, calling, emailing, and even facebook messaging (goodness, how did we ever get by?). How on earth did we communicate with people that were far away? Well, back in the stone ages was a little something called writing a letter . This year, thanks to the departure of many good friends, I have rediscovered the lost art of chicken scratching a letter to someone. Let me tell you there are few greater joys in life (at least in mine anyways :] ) than receiving a letter in the mail. I am obviously not talking about bills, although those are great reminders of how old we are. I am talking about and honest-to-goodness hey-how-are-you-doing-me?-I-am-doing-well-here's-what's-been-going-on-in-my-life ...-letter. I remember the first letter that I wrote to a friend of my own accord was to one of my best friends, Christopher Brown in his first summer at the Air Force Academy. It was so cool to think that even though he was in a new and unfamiliar place, he w