In Memory of Granny

We received word yesterday afternoon that my Granny had been taken to the hospital. Her condition declined rapidly over the day, including a massive heart attack at some point, and she went to be with the Lord at 2:30 this morning. Having survived with bad health and severe pain for several years, I am certain she is rejoicing in her new, perfect body.

My parents have been here in Texas since right before Christmas. They left early this morning to return to Ohio to help my grandfather with preparations for the funeral. I will be leaving tomorrow morning to go to Ohio as well.

Please pray for my grandfather during this time of great loss. After more than 64 years of marriage and many years of being my grandmother's caregiver, he's lost his wife, best friend and his "job."

Also remember my parents and their siblings. My aunt and uncle had just made it to Florida this past weekend only to now have to make travel plans to get back to Ohio.

I'm going to miss my Granny.

For we know that when this earthly tent we live in is taken down (that is, when we die and leave this earthly body), we will have a house in heaven, an eternal body made for us by God himself and not by human hands. We grow weary in our present bodies, and we long to put on our heavenly bodies like new clothing. For we will put on heavenly bodies; we will not be spirits without bodies. While we live in these earthly bodies, we groan and sigh, but it’s not that we want to die and get rid of these bodies that clothe us. Rather, we want to put on our new bodies so that these dying bodies will be swallowed up by life. God himself has prepared us for this, and as a guarantee he has given us his Holy Spirit. So we are always confident, even though we know that as long as we live in these bodies we are not at home with the Lord. For we live by believing and not by seeing. Yes, we are fully confident, and we would rather be away from these earthly bodies, for then we will be at home with the Lord.
(2 Cor. 5:1-8 NLT)