Tracie, Just Tracie

Because I miss my friends who are now all over the country (and globe) I decided to follow the crowd and let you know what I am up to without overcrowding inboxes with mass emails (which no one likes anyway). This is nothing spectacular. It is just my thoughts on life and things I have been doing to keep myself busy and entertained.

Saturday, December 10, 2005

Thoughts

My grandpop is in a coma right now. They don't expect him to wake from it and they also said there was significant brain damage. Seems he went into cardiac arrest and right Grandmom needs to decide if she wants them to recussitate him if it happens again. I don't envy her because that cannot be an easy decision. You want your husband to live but you want him the way he was but you also do not want to feel like you are sentencing him to death.

I keep trying to tell myself that I should be jealous because he is going to see Heaven before any of us! Can you imagine what he is going to experience yet, here we are trying to keep him confined to a hospital bed and attached to a ventilator? I guess we can be so selfish because we have not experienced heaven yet and do not fully understand what is awaiting him. We only know what it is like to have him with us.

Grandmom asked me if I would sing "Because He Lives" at his funeral. I am not ready for questions like that.

2 Comments:

  • At 12:16 PM , Blogger MacGirl said...

    I can understand the not wanting to let go but knowing that something better is waiting. I was very sad when my grandma died but at the same time excited for her because she had been SO impatient to get to heaven already!
    I know its hard. I'll definitely be praying.

     
  • At 6:30 PM , Blogger Val said...

    I've been thinking about what you said about being jealous... and all I keep thinking is this--It is OK if you don't find it easy to be happy for your Grandpop. It's ok if that happiness about him being in heaven isn't an automatic because of the pain of him having to leave here. Because our pain, and our missing is real. WE'RE not in heaven yet. We're still in this place where there is pain and there are tears.

    I've had to tell myself many times in the last few months: Scripture says 'We grieve as those who have hope...' not that we don't grieve.

    I just say all that to let you know that it's ok to feel what you need to feel. Death hurts, and we don't have to gloss over that, even as we celebrate for what our loved ones gain.

    Praying for you. Thinking about you. Love you, Trace

    Val

     

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