Heartfelt Stories

SendOutCards and Brownies-
Sent in by: Helene Larson

I am the only one from my large family that moved away from our home. One of my four sisters, who is a twin, had a seriously ill husband. I was unable to fly home so I sent heartfelt cards of encouragement to her and ones of courage and amusement to him.

It soon became obvious that he was not going to recover. There was no way I could fly home to see them, or attend the funeral. So I sent more cards. When he passed I sent her condolences the same way.

Afterward, I didn't really know if my sister understood my absence, and I thought she might have bad feelings about it. I sent her brownies, just to remind her to take good care of herself.

I got an email from her a few days later saying that, unknown to me, she was going to ask her twin sister to make her brownies but just didn't have the heart to. Then, quite unexpectedly, my brownies appeared on her doorstep - she was so surprised and so grateful! She expressed how much my cards had meant to her.

I couldn't go home to comfort her, but the cards took my place and the brownies "sealed the deal." Before SOC, I would never have thought something as wonderful as this could come out of a few cards and some brownies.