Family

My sweet sister and brother in law came to visit me and my husband Sunday night and Monday night. They were headed to Houston to the oil show. I so enjoyed her visit and it brings to mind the importance of family and the blessing our families are. It will be my sister's birthday on the 25th of August so I sort of fixed her a birthday dinner of fried chicken, mashed potatoes, gravy, corn and green beans and last but not least, chocolate cake, just like our mom used to make. It was so good and brought back so many precious memories. Not only was my sister here, my cousin (who lives here in Weatherford) has a daughter that resides in Massachusetts and she and her 14 mo old son Ryan were able to come and spend about 10 days in this area also. My son and his wife and 2 boys came over while she was here with her little one and our used to be babies got together with their babies. Wow, what an amazing thing to witness, life pressing on when we feel like sometimes we ourselves are standing still. I still feel like I should be the 30 year old with growing children instead of the 50 something year old Grammy watching my children raise their own children. I am so thankful that God has given me the opportunity and blessing to be of good health and the ability to watch all of them grow, and the capacity to find more and more room in my heart for each one of the grandchildren. That is an amazing thing to me that the heart has no capacity limit on love. As long as we are flexible and allow the heart to take in all those precious small hands and hearts and little personalities there is no end to the capacity to love.

There have been those things in my life that have shut down my heart and my capacity to love fully the way God intended, but there is nothing like a special grandchild to thaw out that heart and then one day your heart is full of love once again. I also noticed that when I started loving them, at first it was just them, but with that little seed of love planted in the frozen places of my heart, it began to thaw and not only did a love for my grandchildren grow, a love for others did as well. That is what God intended for us, we are his temple and if we are born again of God he resides in us, His temple. The Bible tells us that God is Love. Is that what is residing in your heart? Thank you Lord for my family, what a wonderful blessing!