The main goal of More Love Letters is to spread love throughout the world via letters of encouragement and support. One way this is accomplished is by people like us leaving friendly notes of love anywhere around town for strangers to find as a random act of kindness. However, they also have a very targeted approach to making the world a better place. People can nominate friends and loved ones who are going through a hard time and if selected, MLL will post their story, collect letters until a deadline, and send a "bundle" of love/encouragement/support letters written by participants to the nominee in one big fat stack of happy.
I believe they do this on a rotating basis every few weeks or month, and they have recently posted a new list of nominees for requested letters.
Over the holiday weekend I had the pleasure of visiting my BFF, Sara in Indiana. While we were together, we rounded up some supplies, found a comfy (and super awesome, if I may say) place to work, and wrote letters to the current list of bundle recipients.
Comforting words come much more easily to Sara than they do to me, so at first I was a little intimidated that I wouldn't know what to say. Though Sara and I may not have any experience with postpartum depression, anorexia, or whatever their exact situations were; we did discover that we had more in common with the recipients than I originally thought. It was refreshing to look back at times in my life when I didn't know if things would ever get better and see that somehow they had. Somehow between then and now things changed and improved and so did I. Even without sharing identical experiences I felt like I could connect to each person and (hopefully!) offer something they will find encouraging.
We all know what it's like to have a smile on our faces because we've gotten a surprise letter from a friend. Through this organization you can share that feeling with someone else who is in dire need of a smile. If you can find the time to write even just a little note, you can really make a difference in someone's life, and even the world. Even if you're too busy this month, consider passing this post along to your other pen pal groups or Facebook friends! It will mean so much to someone. Thanks in advance!
SWEET!
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