{"id":22502,"date":"2026-03-11T13:06:30","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T13:06:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/guideposts.org\/articles\/uncategorized\/signed-sealed-and-delivered\/"},"modified":"2026-04-24T01:34:19","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T01:34:19","slug":"signed-sealed-and-delivered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/guideposts.org\/articles\/positive-living\/health-and-wellness\/better-living\/emotional-and-mental-health\/signed-sealed-and-delivered\/","title":{"rendered":"Signed, Sealed and Delivered"},"content":{"rendered":"

Like most people these days, I can\u2019t imagine life without e-mail. Texting is even more convenient, especially since I have two teen daughters. But there\u2019s something about a letter, something more personal, more meaningful.<\/p>\n

It says that someone took time to put on paper what they felt. Sometimes people reveal something they might not have told you any other way, something that can touch your life forever.<\/p>\n

Let me tell you about three letters that made a difference to me.<\/p>\n

Freshman year of college I was struggling. I\u2019d ventured far from home, from Colorado to Williams College in western Massachusetts.<\/p>\n

Williams was and still is one of the most academically challenging colleges in the country and looks like a movie set: ivy-covered walls, Gothic columns, expansive green lawns in a charming village.<\/p>\n

It seemed as though half my classmates had gone to boarding school. They\u2019d already lived away from home and arrived on campus with an air of sophistication I couldn\u2019t match. (All I knew of preppies was from the movie Love Story.<\/em>)<\/p>\n

I\u2019d been named \u201cOutstanding Senior\u201d at Denver South High and was the editor of the school yearbook. I\u2019d led my church youth group and won a prestigious scholarship. None of that seemed to count for much with my accomplished classmates.<\/p>\n

But I loved to sing, and I was cast as the lead in the Freshman Revue. Finally something at college I could excel at! The rehearsals and performances didn\u2019t allow much time for studying, and then there were friends to make and parties to go to.<\/p>\n

Despite my straight A average in high school, I didn\u2019t have good study habits. My first college report card proved it. I sat on my dorm-room bed, staring at C\u2019s and D\u2019s.<\/p>\n

I knew my parents had gotten a copy of my grades. My mother was an advocate for women\u2019s education and the treasurer of an international organization of university women. My dad ran his own business and was a pillar of the community. They\u2019d been so proud I was following in their footsteps.<\/p>\n

I could have called home, but long-distance calls were expensive then. Besides, telling my parents, \u201cI couldn\u2019t cut it in college. I\u2019m so sorry I\u2019ve disappointed you\u201d hardly seemed attractive.<\/p>\n

Mail was delivered to the student union, where every week I\u2019d find waiting for me a thick packet of Denver news clippings from Mom with a \u201cDaddy says hi\u201d tacked on. I put off checking my mailbox but I couldn\u2019t avoid the student union forever.<\/p>\n

Finally I walked in and Mrs. Marlowe, who sorted our mail, announced, \u201cYou\u2019ve got something.\u201d I peeked inside my mailbox. No clippings this time. A letter. Two letters.<\/p>\n

I grabbed them and sat on a bench outside to read. My dad\u2019s letter was typed on his business stationery, onionskin paper that crinkled in my shaking hands.<\/p>\n

The keys on his old Smith Corona would strike the paper so hard that some letters were raised like Braille and others made holes. I could see through the f <\/em>\u2019s and the o<\/em>\u2019s. I could hear his voice, quiet, firm, kind.<\/p>\n

\u201cI understand you are struggling. We have all been there,\u201d he wrote. Dad, struggle? <\/em>He always seemed so confident! \u201cWe all fail sometimes. We disappoint ourselves. And our family. But those who deserve to be at the top, when they fail, get right back up to the top again. And I know you will.\u201d<\/p>\n

Then he quoted a Scripture: \u201cFrom those to whom much is given, much is required.\u201d<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

I put down the letter, running my fingertips across the paper. Dad wasn\u2019t ashamed of me. He believed I could succeed. If only I could believe in myself as he did!<\/p>\n

Then I opened the envelope from Mom, addressed in her generous, unmistakable hand. As I read, the miles between us disappeared and her words went straight to my heart.<\/p>\n

\u201cI suspect you are carrying burdens and feeling overwhelmed\u2026perhaps you feel guilty about choices that you are not proud of\u2026.\u201d I hadn\u2019t told her about the partying. She knew.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is the time when everything we\u2019ve taught you will kick in. Persistence. Forgiveness. Faith. Remember, you can tell us anything, but if you can\u2019t, there is always One you can <\/em>go to.\u201d<\/p>\n

I\u2019d never heard Mom speak so personally about God. About needing <\/em>him. She sang in our church choir and we said grace at dinner, but here, in this letter, she was sharing something much deeper. She was sharing her relationship with God.<\/p>\n

He wasn\u2019t someone I\u2019d left behind when I came east for college. He was right here, ready to help. All I needed to do was talk to him.<\/p>\n

I did, often. College got much better. My grades improved. I joined the Ephlats, an a cappella group that sang at dinners and concerts. I discovered a passion for writing. I also fell in love with a guy in the Ephlats.<\/p>\n

Steve was three years older, a smart, thoughtful scientist. I thought we were the perfect match, the soprano and tenor harmonizing together, happily ever after.<\/p>\n

Steve graduated and went off to grad school at Cornell. Ithaca, New York, wasn\u2019t that far from Williamstown, Massachusetts. I figured I\u2019d see him on weekends. But I didn\u2019t hear a word from him, not a call, not a letter. I took his silence to mean it was over between us.<\/p>\n

We\u2019d had long conversations about what we believed, what we hoped to do in life. Had it been just some end-of-college fling for him?<\/p>\n

I\u2019d thought freshman year was rough. This was devastating. Now I dreaded going to the student union and seeing nothing more in my mailbox than the usual packets from Mom. Please, Lord, <\/em>I prayed, make this heartache go away.<\/em><\/p>\n

Then one day, Mrs. Marlowe, no doubt detecting my misery, said hopefully, \u201cYou\u2019ve got something!\u201d<\/p>\n

I opened my box and took out a blue card. \u201cUndeliverable. Postage due,\u201d it read. \u201cWhat does this mean?\u201d I asked.<\/p>\n

\u201cSomeone\u2019s sent you something without enough postage. You\u2019ve got to go to the post office in town and pay the balance to pick it up.\u201d Mom probably forgot to put enough stamps on her packet.<\/p>\n

It could wait. There was too much going on\u2014classes, papers to write, concerts with the Ephlats, anything to distract me from my sadness. It wasn\u2019t until weeks later that I passed the post office and remembered the postage-due card in my bag.<\/p>\n

I walked up the marble steps and handed the card to the clerk behind the counter. I paid 25 cents and was given a thick envelope. I recognized the handwriting immediately. Steve\u2019s.<\/p>\n

I didn\u2019t even make it all the way down those marble steps. I just sat and read. It was a long letter, covering both sides of eight pages. No wonder it had arrived postage due! Steve wrote how challenging grad school was, how he missed me.<\/p>\n

Mostly he wrote about the talent he saw in me and how he cherished our relationship. \u201cI would like to see you again. I\u2019m hoping to visit campus on the weekend of\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n

I almost screamed there on the post-office steps. He meant this <\/em>weekend. Just a few days from now! He\u2019d written weeks before and must have figured I\u2019d given up on him. I dashed to a phone and called him, never mind the long-distance bill.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

\u201cOf course I want to see you,\u201d I told him. And to this day, I will never forget seeing him standing at my door three days later.<\/p>\n

No, I didn\u2019t marry Steve. You can\u2019t always write the script for your life and expect everybody to play the parts that you want them to. But he ended up being a terrific friend. He encouraged me to pursue a career in television that led to producing and writing the hit show Touched by an Angel. <\/em><\/p>\n

Steve and I are still good friends and sing together with the Ephlats at reunions back at Williams. To think we might never have spoken again if he hadn\u2019t written that letter!<\/p>\n

I could tell you about other letters, especially the inspiring mail I got from fans of Touched by an Angel. <\/em>But it should be no surprise that I believe in the power of letters. You can hear someone very clearly through the written word. They might share the secrets of their faith or their heart.<\/p>\n

A letter can restore a relationship or change the world. Just think: Half the New Testament is made up of letters, mostly from Paul, but also from Peter, James, John and Jude. Letters are forever.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s why I decided to write a new TV series about a team of lost-mail detectives who help reconnect the recipients and senders of undeliverable letters. Signed, Sealed, Delivered <\/em>premiered this spring on the Hallmark channel; the pilot episode may even remind you of the love letter I almost didn\u2019t get.<\/p>\n

The message is simple and true: Letters can touch our lives in mysterious and unexpected ways. And even if they arrive late, sometimes they\u2019re delivered right on time after all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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