The Evolution of ...

I love greeting cards!

I make them. Spend hours and hours poring over them at stores. I laugh at witty lines. Wince at ultra soppy ones.

Witty or soppy, they are just a great way of sending a message to people you care.

Reading this post by Albert Mohler cracked me up.

He's a skeptic when greeting cards are concerned:

Greeting cards are a sign of cultural decadence. The card companies have largely invented new holidays, just to build business. What's next? National Plumbers Day? When genuine sentiment disappears, the greeting card industry will remain. The slogan for the industry should be this: "How to say something close to something when you have absolutely nothing to say."

And yet he buys them anyway.

He also talked about the emergence of greeting cards for adulterers:

Every new lifestyle is a new opportunity.

Keep this in mind when you read The Los Angeles Times news story on the emergence of a new line of cards for adulterers. In "Adulterers Need Cards Too," the paper reports that a woman named Cathy Gallagher has developed a line of cards for couples involved in an adulterous affair. The whole idea is profoundly sick, but the reality is truly revolting. A Christmas card for the adulterous couple includes this line: "As we each celebrate with our families, I will be thinking of you."

Yep, kinda sick alright.

But I don't care. I still love greeting cards anyway