This is my Favorite Picture of Poppa!
Poppa, G.G., and Chris.I have a similar picture just like this framed in my house.
This is something my kids will never forget. Grandma Tina in the pool playing with them! They always say how much fun Grandma Tina is.
This is last summer on our way to Texas and we stopped at Poppa and Grandma Tina's for a visit and got great family shots together.
On Ethan's 10th Birthday we received a phone call late in the evening. Grandma Tina's Father who had been battling cancer for 2 years had lost his battle and passed away and was with his Lord. I felt so bad for Tina. Chris and I both prayed for her and her family while they delt with the loss.
Then the other news came all with in a ten minute conversation... Not only had Tina's father passed away but this coming Wenesday Poppa will be having open heart surgery. His Aortic Valve that carries the blood into the heart and out to the body is completely blocked. Its is only functioning at 3%! Not good. I personally felt my heart drop to my stomach. I can't imagine what Chris felt. WE are both really worried and praying for a flawless surgery and a speedy recovery. Poppa is going to feel like a young guy when he has the vavle working a 100% again, I am sure. I always say, its amazing after being sick for so long and then either having a surgery or being put on the right med's just brings you back to life and you feel amazing. Its just a wonderful feeling and we are praying that God just place a hand of healing on Poppa's heart during the surgery. We are also praying for Grandma Tina. I can't even begin to imagine the worry, and stress she must being feeling as she prepares for this event. Expecially after losing her father. So I am praying for peace to come over her and pass thru her, and a knowing that Christ Jesus is there in sickness, and in health with a plan. Grandma Tina is a god fearing women and gives all glory and praise to her Lord Jesus, so I know God is with her and Poppa right now as we too are praying for them because we can't be there in person to hold their hands thru this time. Chris and I have always had this belief.... Being in the military is very hard for Chris's family to understand. Correct that, the military life style is hard for Chris's family to understand. So, they feel because we are not there they don't want to worry or bother us with events that happen with the family. Its seems we are always the last to know. Its something I have come to accept because I can't change that, however, I am always quick to say and so is Chris "We may not be there in person, but we are there with you in spirit and no matter what the best and most powerful thing we can do for them is pray for them." Prayer is such a powerful,faithful, all knowing answer. It calms the soul. It ease's the weight of a heavy heart, it grants peace to those who accept it. We may not always get our prayers answered or know God's plan but we do know that God is always listening and heading our prayers. Not only that "Family Ties Have such Special Threads" and as God say's....
"Peace I leave with you...My peace I give you, I do not give you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled and do not be afraid. John 14:27" &
"Learn of Me, and ye shall find rest unto your souls. –Matthew 11:29-" and a couple more of my favorites -
"Pray Hard, Work Hard, Have Faith" -
"Peace is not the absence of conflict from life, but the ability to cope with it" -
"Replace fear with faith - God has not given us a spirit of fear and timidity, but of power, love, and self-discipline.
All these things we pray and pray some more right now for Poppa as he has his heart surgery and for Grandma Tina as she waits and prays and with Chris's mom Kathy as she too deals with the emotion of all that is going on not only with Poppa her father but G.G.(her mother, Chris grandmother) who you all know from reading about her on previous blogs is in a nursing home but doing really well. A quick update.... she fell and broke her shoulder and was moved to a nursing home to help recover and is thriving. God is good! We were told 5 months in January but look we are going into August and she is still with us and still as beatiuful as ever. So anyway, if you are reading this please pray for our family and thank you. We love you Poppa Get Well Soon! As the saying goes........"There are three things that will endure – Faith, Hope, and most of all Love.
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