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Grandparents Are Examples

I remember a time when I didn’t know what it was like to not have your parents watching out for you. A time when all my friends were young and healthy and our biggest problem was what we were going to wear Saturday night, or who we would see while we were out riding around town.

There were no cellphones back then and our town was so small we didn’t have a stop light, just a caution light that winked mischievously at us day and night. My friends and I copied down the number of the pay phone on the square (no it wasn’t 867-5309…if you don’t know that number you probably aren’t old enough to understand most of this post) and thought it was ridiculously fun to call and see who would answer. We spent hours playing word scrabble with signs around town. We’d take the letters off and rearrange them to make them say something we thought was funny. Once we took a relative’s underwear and ran it up the school’s flagpole. (Don’t ask me whose bloomers, my lips are sealed).

Should we have done those things? Of course not. Would I do it again? Of course not, but I’m not 16. In fact, I’m a wayyyyy past my teen years. Looking back it was such a time of innocence. My friends and I thought we were really wild, but by today’s standards we were about as wild as Roy Roger’s horse, Trigger, when Trigger was 20 years old.

Fast Forward

Now I have a beautiful 15 year old granddaughter and a slew of cute little grands growing faster than weeds. I love them more than I love a beautiful sunset in the Florida Keys but I know that giving them advice is like Jim Croce said, “You don’t tug on superman’s cape. You don’t spit into the wind. You don’t pull the mask off that old lone ranger, And you don’t mess around with Jim.” Passing out unasked for advice (especially to teenagers) is pointless.

However, I will do my best to live a life that shows them what maturity and Jesus can do. Showing them how to live is ten times more powerful than telling them.

Mom Was Right

I remember my Mom telling me that “if you have your health, you have everything.” She told me a lot of things and the older I get the more I can affirm….she was always right.

The past few months have been hard. Watching my husband fight Covid and an autoimmune disease at the same time has been one of the biggest challenges of my life. Thank you Jesus for giving me Christian parents, grandparents, aunts and uncles who prayed for me and modeled how to be a faith-filled Christian.

Grandparents Are Examples

My hope and prayer is that I am half the example to my grandchildren that my parents and grandparents were to me.