So now I have come to this milestone,  being a 'Gramma'! 


Holding my grandson the day he was born

 All I knew was that I was told I would love it! 
No one told me it would be hard to sleep night after night wondering how your sweet daughter is doing when she was overdue.  Or that you would be startled awake by your own thoughts of...is she having her baby?  No one told me about the ache in your heart when you walk in the hospital room and your daughter is feeling miserable hour after hour and you can't do anything about it.  Nobody mentioned to me that when you see her hooked up to an IV and she is trembling and struggling that you would feel like you were going to pass out.  I had no idea that when hearing she would be having a c-section I would feel like I was crumbling inside.When I was finally able to see her and Everett, I could not stop crying.  I cried for her pain.  I cried for her relief.  I cried for her joy. I cried for her sorrow. I was thinking, "I want to do everything I can to help her recover from this tramatic event! I will give her my all."  You know what? It wasn't tramatic for her.  She has recoverd with flying colors. The Lord and her husband have been there for her every step of the way. For me, this has been the largest milestone in her life and I still get weepy thinking of the pain she endured and also tears of joy at the thought of her as a mother!


Isn't our Lord's love the same for us? John 15:9-13 states: " Just as the Father has loved Me, I have also loved you; abide in My love. If you keep My commandments, you will abide in My love; just as I have kept My Father’s commandments and abide in His love. These things I have spoken to you so that My joy may be in you, and that your joy may be made full.“This is My commandment, that you love one another, just as I have loved you.  Greater love has no one than this, that one lay down his life for his friends."