......I did something yesterday that I said I would never do.......... I have thought about it several years but I just did not feel the need....... I do not know what caused me to choose this year but I did........ I thought that I would have some emotional feeling going there but I did not ......... I was quite at easy and found that I was glad that I had come........... The flowers so needed attention and I came prepared with some pretty flowers from my stash......... I always have a stash................ You see....... I had not been to the place where we laid my grandmother since that day in 1996. When we put her there I was so broken hearted as I loved my grandmother so... I grieved for weeks and weeks and I miss her still today......... She was my mentor and my life coach. She taught me so much about life and she just loved me......... You just knew that she loved you..........
....... She taught me to cook and to sew and she is the reason that I love to dig in the dirt........... She was always in the garden growing something ......
..........She was a simple woman if terms of things and money........ but she was a woman rich in wisdom and life skills........ She was never critical and never judgemental..........through all my trouble in life she always had a good word to say and always encouraged me to trust in the Lord and He would guide my life........... She was a strong woman of faith and the foundation that she laid for me remains to this day.......
......... She was 99 when she went to be with the Lord just 8 months short of her 100
th birthday...
......... I have not been back to the place where we laid her since that day in 1996 ...... but something took me there yesterday............... I thought that it would affect me more than it did..... I stood for a minute over the marker and then sat and put a few yellow flowers in her metal vase............ You see...... I so miss Ida Potts but she is not there....... she has never been there...... When she left that day she was
immediately went to be with the Father....... We only laid her body there to be raised at the sound of the
trumpet...........
Soooooooo today I stood over a place where we laid her body................. but
This is how I remember her............. and this is who I will see again when the trumpet sounds...
and.......... I so enjoyed giving her some pretty flowers.......... I will go back often..........
Memorial Day ......... a day to remember those that have gone before......... We all have loved ones to remember........... and we all have loved ones that we will be united with one day...
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