Luke 1:28 “Greetings, you who are highly favoured! The Lord is with you.”

I have been thinking about Christmas cards.
To whom do you send Christmas cards? Only family, neighbours, friends, or everyone? Are you a buy in bulk send to every single house in your Postcode type of person? Do you always manage to send to everyone who sends Christmas cards to you and how do you feel if you are too late to return the gesture?
And I wonder what do you do with your Christmas cards when Christmas is done? Do you box them for future perusal or only keep the special ones?
Last year, having just moved into Daventry, we received a mysterious Christmas card in the post. Said posted card was not addressed to us nor addressed to the person who was in the house before us, and the card had no return address. I wonder…what would you do in that situation? (I really would love to hear from you).
Would you go on a fact-finding mission impossible Christmas venture and track down the person the card is addressed and make sure the card is finally delivered? Or would you open and display someone else’s Christmas card in your home? 
Christmas cards usually have the wonderful ability to warm both the sender and the receiver’s hearts. I think Christmas cards are delightful - I love the greetings. I read the printed or handwritten greetings about love and peace and goodwill blessings. I get a renewed sense of faith, hope and love at Christmas from Christmas cards. I think it was Karl Rahner who once wrote that, at Christmas, God gives us the sacred permission to be happy.
May I take this opportunity from us as the Hutton family to offer our own greetings and prayers this Christmas by sharing again the beautiful verse found in Luke 1:28 “Greetings, you who are highly favoured! The Lord is with you.”

The Lord God really is with us.

Brian