Gram
While lounging at the pool last thursday with Kim and Linds taking in the sun, embracing NOT studying for finals.....I got a phone call from my mom, one of those phone calls that you are never ready to recieve and that you dont really know how to respond to. Crying before she even began to mutter the words, my mom told me that her mom, my Gram had just passed away. Gram was only 63, still a very young grandmother, but her poor body was much older than that, and just worn out. She had been sick on and off for most of my life with 2 different battles with Cancer, treatments for the cancers, probably a dozen surgeries or hospital stays within the last 15 years. She had better years than others, but for the last 10 years for sure, her poor little body and her health had been getting worse and worse, and finally the Lord said it was time.For some reason I have been totally at peace about it, even after I went home this weekend to be with my family and process it all; While I am so saddend for my mom, I am so happy that Gram is no longer sick, and that she has a new body and is with Jesus. I know without a shadow of a doubt that my Gram was a believer and that of course helps with my peace about all of it. This is the first death in my family that I've ever had to go through, all of my grandparents and some of my great granparents are still alive, so this was somewhat of a shock.
The Lord was so good to me and my family this weekend in dealing with it and I totally felt all the prayers from my faithful friends who I asked to pray for me and was so thankful for that. I was and am still just sad for my mom. It's so true that things like death are just totally different when it happens to you and your family, even though we will all have to deal with it at some point. But, I can honestly say I have a peace about it, and I think my mom is slowly heading that direction as well.
posted by Amanda Michelle Morrison @ 8:30 PM
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