My hands are itching to write letters to strangers — words laced in love, in hope, in encouragement — and write I will. It's now the last day of the Twelve Days of Love Letter Writing and that means we're on the tail-end of the opportunity to write words to twelve different strangers. 

This is More Love Letters' sixth year of campaigning for twelve days of twelve letter requests. Let's nestle into a cozy space with stationary and our favorite pens to write letters to twelve strangers who could use extra encouragement this holiday season. Grab your stamps and a mug of something warm (or some wine) and please, let me tell you about Alicia.

Love, it fills my soul to be a part of the team to share with you what Alicia's sister shared about her. Alicia is a light spreader, a love writer, a human who needs to know she's not alone. She's been walking through a difficult season of life and could use encouragement. Sisters tend to look out for one another, and Alicia's nominated her to receive a bundle of love letters.

Here's her story ::

“My sister recently moved to Chicago with her boyfriend of three years. Things had been progressing in their relationship and she imagined herself marrying him. However, the relationship came to a totally unexpected and heartbreaking end.

Although my family is all within driving distance, he was all she had in her day-to-day life. She is heartbroken and can’t fathom living her life without him there–her best friend. She feels immense loneliness and doesn’t have a community around her to support and help carry her through.

Alicia is the most loving person I know and spends time writing letters to strangers and hanging love notes in the trees of her town on Valentines Day. She loves through her words and actions on a daily basis and I know that receiving words of encouragement from others could really lift her spirit and help her to know she isn’t alone.”

Let's show up for Alicia this cold Friday night. I'm familiar to the loneliness she feels, and I'm certain that having hundreds of strangers rallying with her to help her realize that she isn't walking this road by herself. Write her a love letter, place a stamp on the envelope and send it her way. Your letter will be bundled with other letters from around the world and delivered in January. Let's rally for and with dear sweet souls who flood the world with joy. 

PLEASE SEND LOVE LETTERS TO ::
Alicia’s Bundle
℅ Genna F.
1331 Keenland Drive
Bartlett, IL 60103
USA

Want to keep writing? There are eleven other requests on the More Love Letters blog. Pour yourself another cup, head over to that corner and see if any or all of the stories speak to your soul. You're welcome and invited to write just one letter, or send mail to each of the twelve strangers' bundles! 

Please be sure to postmark all love letters by December 20, 2017. Be love, be light, be joy to the brave and kind and strong humans who need to be reminded that they are lionhearted. 

Want to know more about More Love Letters? Head over here. 

Love you, lionheart.

Kate

If I could spend three hours writing love letters to strangers, I'd do it. And maybe I will do it, for one day at least. The Twelve Days of Letter Writing continues with Nancy's story — a beautiful woman who floods the world with joy and faith even though she lives with myotonic dystrophy. A family friend of Nancy's has requested a bundle of love letters to be written and sent with words of faith and empowerment — read on and write on.

On the ninth day of love letter writing...

"Nancy is someone who brings joy to every room regardless of the condition she is in. I have known Nancy since I was four or five years old, as she is one of my mother's best friends. Nancy has myotonic dystrophy and wasn't expected to make it past her 30s. I truly believe her strong faith and joyful soul has lead her to be alive today (she's in her late 50s).

She has begun to deteriorate faster though and is currently undergoing radiation therapy, and her husband Bruce became a CNA to take care of her father and her. Nancy's father passed away this summer, leaving her without any family. Nancy's family is my everything.

Although she is in a wheelchair now, Nancy is the star of my every room we walk into. Our entire small town knows her, and she could talk and laugh for hours with anyone. She's on the prayer committee within her parish, and she is always thinking and praying about others instead of herself.

She recently had to go in for a biopsy and is at risk of thyroid cancer. She's always so hopeful but I think now more than ever is when she deserves these letters. Some days she feels so good, but more and more she has bad days, when she must stay home. As the social butterfly she is, I'm worried being stuck at home will decrease her joy and warm heart, and letters of support and love could be just what she needs to continue fighting.

There is no one else in this world who deserves a bundle of love more than this woman, who had become my second mom entirely. I would give anything to give her this gift of love and support."

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PLEASE SEND ALL LOVE LETTERS TO ::

Nancy's Bundle
C/O BethAnn Z.
1917 State Street
La Crosse, WI 54601
USA

Please postmark all love letters by December 27, 2016.

To learn more about The Twelve Days of Letter Writing, please visit my previous blog post.

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Also! There are eight other stories on moreloveletters.com about brave and kind and strong humans who need to be reminded of that. What in your day can you cut out to write a love letter or two or twelve to a stranger? 

Friends, picture this::

You're sitting at your kitchen table, writing a letter with words laced in nothing but love to a complete stranger — words that remind this human that despite rocky, shadowy and lonely times, they are not only loved, but also seen, worthy, valuable and brave. Now place yourself in the shoes of the person who will open your letter. 

You've come home one day with a heart that has been heavy for a while to find a loved one with a bundle of letters — a bundle of letters all meant for you, written by hundreds of strangers. Letters full of encouragement and words that remind you you're not walking through this life alone. These letters express that other people want to lift up some of your burdens and love on you for the length of a piece of stationary.

Let's write some letters. Twelve, to be exact. The time for The 12 Days of Letter Writing has officially arrived, so get that stationary, your favorite pen and strings of sentences ready. We have twelve people to love on. Yesterday was the official kickoff on the More Love Letters blog and each day (until Dec. 15) will unveil another sweet soul's story. Click here to see Kat's and Ashley's stories, and keep checking back every day until Dec. 15 for another person to write to.  

The holiday season can be tough. I know that, you probably know that. Loving on others can help keep our hearts a little lighter. 

http://www.moreloveletters.com/12days/

PS:: I'm SO super excited to be one of the Influencers for the project, along with my writing accountability partner, Gabbie Cook -- We (along with a few other stunning ladies) will be blogging and social media blasting for MLL!!

Soooooo.... Keep it social! If you feel called to participate — maybe for all of the twelve days, or maybe for just one story that particularly tugs on your heart, write a letter. Then use #MLL12DAYS on Instagram and Twitter to share your letter and help spread the word of this beautiful mission!

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"THE WORLD NEEDS MORE LOVE LETTERS IS A GLOBAL ORGANIZATION USING THE POWER BEHIND SOCIAL MEDIA TO WRITE AND MAIL LETTERS TO STRANGERS ALL OVER THE WORLD. NOT-FOR-PROFIT AND COMPLETELY MISSION-DRIVEN, WE LET ANYONE NOMINATE SOMEONE IN NEED OF A LOVE LETTER BUNDLE. WE PICK STORIES THAT RESONATE. YOU GET THE CHANCE TO WRITE A LETTER AND MAIL IT IN.

THE TASK IS SMALL BUT THE IMPACT IS GREATER THAN YOU CAN IMAGINE."

- More Love Letters