Thank you cards

Is it just me or are those the best things to get?!  I love them.  I have such a hard time remembering to send the dang things though!!!  I have every thank you note/card I've ever been given.  They are precious to me.  Every once in a while when I'm feeling like I'm feeling down on myself I pull out some of them and read them.  They make me smile and feel a little bit better about myself!!!  I have been trying to listen to and follow promptings I receive more closely the last couple months.  Really trying.  Trying to hear them, interpret them correctly and then do is proving somewhat of a challenge for me.  Is it just me?  Was that really my idea or was it inspiration?  It's tricky sometimes.  Anyway, I've thought lately that the gratitude shown me in all of my thank you cards means so much to me, why don't I do that same thing for others?  Why don't I ever send out thank you notes?  So I have been thinking about who/and what I could send them for.  At first I couldn't think of anything in particular.  Then it happened.  A flood into my mind of people who have been kind to my children, taught them something (church, school, etc.) someone who said something nice and brightened my day, things they did to help me when my husband is gone, things like that.  People and situations I had forgotten about after I wrote it in my journal.  I've been trying to write them as I think of them.  I will be mailing them soon.  It almost feels like a goodbye of sorts.  They have been superbly difficult for me to write.  Not because I can't think of things to say but because it wrenches my heart to say goodbye to these wonderful people.  I love them.  They have served me and my family, loved us.  That is difficult to part with.  So, I am going to do better about writing and sending thank you notes to people,  Because as a wise man once said, "Showing gratitude is the mark of a noble soul."