{"id":3772,"date":"2009-05-14T13:35:00","date_gmt":"2009-05-14T13:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brfwitness.org\/?p=3772"},"modified":"2022-09-26T13:42:41","modified_gmt":"2022-09-26T13:42:41","slug":"the-letter-file","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brfwitness.org\/the-letter-file\/","title":{"rendered":"The Letter File"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"3772\" class=\"elementor elementor-3772\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-1d83f9b elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"1d83f9b\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-619847d\" data-id=\"619847d\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-25e15b0 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"25e15b0\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<style>\/*! elementor - v3.21.0 - 08-05-2024 *\/\n.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-stacked .elementor-drop-cap{background-color:#69727d;color:#fff}.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-framed .elementor-drop-cap{color:#69727d;border:3px solid;background-color:transparent}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap{margin-top:8px}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap-letter{width:1em;height:1em}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap{float:left;text-align:center;line-height:1;font-size:50px}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap-letter{display:inline-block}<\/style>\t\t\t\t<article id=\"post-1439\" class=\"post-1439 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-bread-basket\">\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<div class=\"pf-content\">\n<p>\u201cThanks for being such an encouragement to me through my college years. Your Christmas letters were helpful. I grew to look forward to them. Presently I have a picture of your family in my wallet which you sent one Christmas. It\u2019s a good reminder of my roots at Middle Creek!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI can\u2019t speak for the rest of the class, only for myself, but you have helped me shamefully realize how ignorant and slack I am about knowledge of the Bible and applying it to life. I\u2019ve been leaning toward the wrong direction for years. So I\u2019ve wiped the dust off my Bible end am simply amazed with learning about end experiencing so many marvelous things about Godl\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJust a note of appreciation to you In your monumental task of guiding our church. It doesn\u2019t go unnoticed.\u201d<\/p><p><br><\/p>\n<p>\u201cJust a short note of thanks for what you have meant to me. At times when I needed encouraging, then at times when I needed guidance, you have always been there. You have listened and you have strengthened me. You have helped me to keep my eyes on Jesus, and not on others.\u201d<\/p><p><br><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI will always consider you to be my spiritual father because of the constant inspiration that you have been to me. I am sure you don\u2019t realize how often I have been strengthened end encouraged by either your words or life.\u201d<\/p><p><br><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>The letter file!<\/em><\/strong>&nbsp;Everyone should have one. There\u2019s no way one can keep&nbsp;<strong>all<\/strong>&nbsp;the correspondence that accumulates through the years, but the&nbsp;<strong>special<\/strong>&nbsp;notes and letters, well, they\u2019re in a file all of their own. And in dark times of discouragement, what an inspiration it is to just browse through these gems! I get encouraged all over again!<\/p><p><br><\/p>\n<p>Also in my special file are some things too painful to reopen and relive. The unsigned letter along with a poem entitled \u201cThe Modernist Preacher Entering Hell.\u201d The judgmental note criticizing last Sunday\u2019s message. The lengthy missive stating what all\u2019s wrong with me and my leadership in the church. I find no&nbsp;<strong>need<\/strong>&nbsp;to reread these letters because I already<strong>&nbsp;know<\/strong>&nbsp;what they say \u2014 some of them&nbsp;<strong>verbatim<\/strong>.<\/p><p><br><\/p>\n<p>But the&nbsp;<strong>encouraging<\/strong>&nbsp;notes and letters, ah, they\u2019re like cold water on a scorching day! Just as the Apostle Paul was encouraged by gifts from the Philippian Church (Philippians 4:1417) during his time of need in a Roman prison cell, just so many of the notes end letters in my special file are \u201cgifts\u201d to be enjoyed again and again!<\/p><p><br><\/p>\n<div><strong>\u2013Paul W. 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