Pastor Melvin Newland tells about a man in Salt Lake City who decided to send out 600 Christmas cards to total strangers.

He got telephone directories from several cities, addressed 600 cards to people he had never met, put his return address on the envelopes and mailed them.

Amazingly, he received 117 responses from these total strangers. One lady wrote, “It was so good to hear from you. Your card arrived the day I got home from the hospital, and I can’t tell you what an encouragement it was to hear from an old friend.”

Another wrote, “I have to admit that when we received your card we couldn’t really picture you. We had to think hard for a long time before we remembered. By the way, please give our regards to your father. He is such a wonderful man!”

But I think this one took the cak…