WALKING IN GRACE

The memories I have of life in that little country home I would not trade for anything. God saw fit to set my feet on a new path.  I would learn many lessons in the home of this couple  Lessons that would carry me through the rest of my life.

I will never forget the feelings I felt the day we laid my Daddy to rest.  As I stood by that casket I thought my life had ended.  I was ten years old,  he was seventy,  but until this day I just never knew such heartache.  How could my Daddy be gone?  Why would God hurt me this way? What would I do now?  What would happen now to my Mama and me?  A million questions...No answers. It would be years later before I would understand that God did not wish to hurt me...he was only fullfilling  Daddy's  only wish...to go home to Heaven. I was too young to know that my Daddy was old,  and feeble,  and that God did me a favor by not letting him suffer.  On the day he died he had a FULL day.  We don't know what the order was but we know that he had mowed the yard (He loved a fresh cut yard ) gone hunting and brought home squirrels and cleaned them and had them soaking in the sink for supper, and been fishing and caught cat-fish.  I guess God wanted him to enjoy his day doing the things he loved...but when God called him home...He was doing what he had always dreamed of...he was bowing at the feet of his Lord.

At the tender age of ten I knew death for the first time.  I didn't understand death exactly,  I just knew that I would never see my Daddy here on this earth again.  I knew that Winter would never be the same again,  and that he would miss my years to come.  But because God chose to place me in this wonderful home I did understand one thing about death...it only meant seperation for a little while,   if you lived for God.  Daddy told me Heaven was a BEAUTIFUL place and that he couldn't wait to go there.  So although my heart was breaking,  I knew that Daddy  would wait for me on the other side. 

  Now thirty years later I still grieve for him at times.  I was his little girl,  and that's something that never changes.  No amount of time can take away the memories I have,  they are just as vivid today as they were then. The things my Daddy taught me in the short time God gave us together, made me the person I am today. I know that I am striving to make Heaven my home...Would you like to go there with me?  Seek the Lord today,  for you have NO promise of tomorrow,  in the blink of an eye you will leave this world...when I open my eyes again...I want to see Jesus.

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