I love Christmas cards. LOVE THEM. Our mantle is filled with smiling faces of everyone we have come to know and love from across the years. People that are only friends-of-friends that we have never met face to face have sent us Christmas cards.
I had plans for a family Christmas card. It would be something adorable that the girl who we had picked to do our newborn pictures would do. This sweet being's name is Lindsey, and she was such an amazing friend through our deployment! Alex found her pictures online and fell in love with some of the poses she did with newborns, so we started a conversation with her. She told us that there is a program called Operation Attachment where photographers donate their time to serve the families of military members who are deployed. They offer a free session as long as your loved one is deployed, so we weren't sure if we would qualify because we were sincerely hoping that Alex would be home before then and disqualify us!
Anyways, when Kaitlyn passed, Alex had the state of mind to email Lindsey and tell her what happened. Her immediate response was to tell us about Now I Lay Me Down To Sleep. Even though we had already contacted NILMDTS through the hospital, that just tells you so much about Lindsey's heart and character. She is constantly looking to serve others.
I had contacted Lindsey about still doing some Christmas cards for us because I wanted them to use for Christmas cards. But I didn't know what the heck they would look like. I started combing the internet for pictures of couples that didn't have them both smiling cheerfully at the camera. That just felt fake; everyone we were sending cards to knew we wouldn't be smiling and cheerful this Christmas.
Finally we found the perfect one.... and the perfect verse to go along with it.
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