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I have been missing grandma. I always do at Christmastime, because we spent the holidays with her and she loved the shopping and baking and cooking and the bustle of a big family. On Christmas Eve we'd all pile into several pews at Zion Lutheran Church and even if we went to church hundreds of miles away it was home for that night. Grandma went to her true home seven years ago this month, but we were missing her for a long time before that as Alzheimer's Disease took her from us in pieces for over a decade. In many ways her death felt like we were getting her back, knowing that she was whole again in Heaven. And over the past few years I've loved thinking about her being part of the "company of heaven."
And then, sometimes life is such that we begin missing people in anticipation that we will not have them here for us much longer. Since my maternal grandparents' anniversary on January 1, grandma has been to the ER every other day. Now she is hospitalized with a number of things wrong. None of them is life-threatening on its own, but all are taking their toll on a body that is already tired and wracked with constant pain.
Last night we had a very sweet conversation with her telling me about her friend Lilly who has "been saving a room next to her in Heaven for a long time." She also told us about how wonderful her mother's death was as "she went to sleep one night in her bed and woke up in Heaven." We laughed a lot and some of us cried a bit, but she let us know that she is tired and ready to go.
We may have her with us here on earth for hours or God may grant her years, but when she goes home. We will know where to find her.
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