A Life Remembered

This year Christmas was a little different for our family. We had the loss of my grandpa just days before the holidays. I remember so much about him...all the times I spent at his house when he and my grandma watched me while my parents were at work. I remember him laying on the floor playing barbies with me. I remember taking rides in his red pick-up truck. But mostly, I remember what he said everytime he saw me.

"I remember the time you asked me for a roll of life savers. You saw I had a big box of them and said, 'Grandpa, you have so many...could I just have one roll of life savers?'" He chuckled everytime he said that.

He was a great man...a great life remembered...and he will be missed.

I was very amazed by the story I heard from my uncle when I was at my grandpa's funeral. During World War II, he had to have emergency surgery and the rest of his unit was sent to a battle (or something of that sorts). No one returned from this mission. He was the only one of his unit to survive.

It's amazing how God works. Imagine if he was with his unit. Things would be so very different. I would not be here. God's plan is such an amazing weaving of PERFECTION!!!