It’s Getting Depressing…

8-05am

I’m sitting in the Rise and Shine studio, listening to Focus on the Family – to Dr. Gary and Barb Rosberg. As I am hearing their story, my mind keeps going back to Granny, who I saw yesterday. We are still seeing her 4 times a week. I go Sunday/Monday and Wednesday and Mike goes Tuesday and Friday. But it’s getting depressing going to see Granny.  She is in slow decline. I like to take something to show her, so yesterday I chose Monica (her daughter’s) wedding photo album. Brian and Monica married in 1971 and Granny made Monica’s wedding dress. Maybe she had to make that dress just to be able to look at it today. I showed her the photos and made a fuss about how lovely Monica looked and the amazing dress Granny made. I asked her, ‘do you remember?’  ‘Yes, I remember,’  she said. Then I said to her, ‘which one is Mike?’ She said, ‘I don’t know.’ Maybe her eyes are not that great. She seems so frail and mentally, she is struggling. She has difficulty speaking. She can’t make her needs known. It’s really hard for her and it’s really hard to watch. We held hands and looked at each other. Then I recited Psalm 121. She didn’t respond much to that either, but other ladies who heard it appreciated it. I heard one say, ‘that’s good.’ 🙂

Granny turns 89 next month and and this would all be very depressing if it was only about hear and now and not about eternity. It is not about here and now and although, it is getting harder to visit Granny, to brighten up her day, to try and get her to smile, I know that one day, Granny will go from this life to the next. While here, she can hardly walk, she is bound by a broken body and mind that doesn’t work as it used to. But in the blink of an eye, one day, she will have a new body, a new mind, a new life. There will be no more tears and no more pain. Life will be grand!

Until she takes that great and marvellous step, my job is to visit her and try and bring joy to her day. To remind her that God is with her. To pray for her to be comforted and to be comfortable. To remind her that she is loved and she is not forgotten.

2 Corinthian 1:3 – Blessed be God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies, and the God of all comfort; 4Who comforts us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort them which are in any trouble, by the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted of God.

Granny listening to music

Believe it or not, but THE BEST IS YET TO COME!!

God bless you loads.

In His Grip,

Helga xx 🙂