I will greatly MISS her and our chats about life,people, and happenings! Of course i already thot of questions i should've asked her. I'd love to be the one to tell her the juicy news about our son dating! And surely we would talk about how many green beans i got out of my garden and other trivial things.
She missed going to her friend's funerals the last few years.And she would ask for the CD so she could at least listen to the sermon... I'm pretty sure she'd want to listen to her own!
She enjoyed immensely when any of her 20 neices or nephews would stop by to see her, and took a special interest in her 97 great neices and nephews and 122 great-great neices and nephews!
Some of our last signs were painted at her house while we were doing 24/7 care for her. The very last one -"Bind my wandering heart to Thee" was after she was bedfast, and a needy,dependent prayer she'll never have to pray again! She's with her Father forever!!
A chorus she wanted us to pray with her at bedtime went like this...
Let us pray for each other,
not faint by the way,
in this sad world of sorrow and care.
For that home is so bright and is almost in sight,
and I trust in my heart ,
WE'LL go there! (instead of the usual "you'll" go there.)
Another favorite of hers was "I'll fly away". It was a real tearjerker for me, as it was being sung at her funeral...thinking of sitting across from her at the kitchen table, and her in an awed,curious kind of voice, asking about how it's gonna be- to actually fly away?? Well, now she knows!!
What a lady! She really has drawn me to God in the way she lived her life! And isn't that how He meant it to be??? I think it significant that her very last words when given a sip of water were...Thank-you! I pray that gratefulness would become such a very real,and evident part of me as I live the rest of my life! And that leaning on Him would be an all day-every day reality...forever and always!!
