Decades ago Dr Jerry Motto discovered the power of a ldquo caring letter rdquo His research found that simply sending a letter expressing care to discharged patients who had previously attempted suicide reduced the rate of recurrence by half Recently health care providers have rediscovered this power when sending ldquo caring rdquo texts postcards and even social media memes as follow-up treatment for the severely depressed nbsp Twenty-one ldquo books rdquo in the Bible are actually letters mdash epistles mdash caringly written to first-century believers who struggled for a variety of reasons Paul James and John wrote letters to explain [... more]