Saying goodbye...

Wow, what a weekend.  On Saturday, we said goodbye to my Grandma in Kansas.  My Grandma was an amazing Christian woman.  She greeted everyone with "God bless you, I love you".  She was also known as the kissing bandit.  You did not get away without a hug and a kiss from her!  I've heard stories about her pulling her car over just to get out and tell someone she knew, "God bless you, I love you".  She would give them a hug and kiss and get back in her car and go on her way again.  My Grandma loved her Bible and read it constantly.  I remember staying with her and as we ate our breakfast she would be reading her Bible to us.  I am so thankful to have had a heritage like that.  I am glad that God blessed this world with her presence for 90 years.  The impact she has made will live on forever in her children, her grandchildren, her great grandchildren and all who knew her.

This poem was found written in her Bible:

I'm Free
By: Anne Lindgren Davison


Don't grieve for me, for now I'm free
I'm following the path God laid for me
I took his hand when I heard Him call
I turned my back and left it all.

I could not stay another day
To laugh, to love, to work or play.
Tasks left undone must stay that way.
I found that place at the close of the day.

If my parting has left a void
Then fill it with remembered joy.
A friendship shared, a laugh, a kiss.
Ah yes, these things I too, will miss.

Be not burdened with times of sorrow.
I wish you the sunshine of tomorrow.
My life's been full, I savored much.
Good friends, good times, a loved one's touch.

Perhaps my time seemed all to brief;
Don't lengthen it now with undue grief.
Lift up your heart and share with me
God wanted me now, He set me free.