Dear Gram,
It’s been two years since we said goodbye! Oh how I miss you!
It’s funny how you don’t truly appreciate someone or something until they or it is gone!
You are no different. I miss seeing your smiling face, but what I miss more are your hugs and kisses
It seems too late now, but over the last two years, I have realized, just how great of a grandparent you were.
I have no recollection of you yelling at us, yes you corrected, but never yelled. You didn’t spoil us with things, but you listened when we talked! You encouraged me!
And you example! Oh how it speaks volumes! Because we over the last year have walked, the most difficult road to date. And on this road has been great loneliness. Those who should have been there to support, turned their backs! But in the midst of all of that God has used memories of you, supporting others, who have walked similar paths. How you encouraged and loved, despite all else. How you didn’t judge. How you embraced and cared for them.
Thank you for the Christ like loved you displayed, even when they weren’t around. Your silent testimony speaks volumes above all the empty self-righteous words of others. A testimony that still impacts me though you are no longer with us
Thank you for the cookies.
Thank you for opening your home to us, to just hang out. Did we make messes, I’m sure we did! But I never once heard you complain about us and our presence! I know you weren’t perfect, neither am I, no one is!
Thank you for your love.
Thank you for really listening to me!
I love you
I miss you!
<3 Mary
