Inspiration

"I'm keeping the faith" - Billy Joel, Keeping the Faith



Would You Be Proud?



Would you be proud
if you saw me today?
Would you kiss and hug me?
What would you say?

Would you say “I love you”
and tell me how much you miss me?
Or would you say, “You are giving up to soon!
There is so much you can be!”

I think you would be proud
of the woman I have grown into.
And if you whisper to me “I miss and love you”
I would have to reply “I miss and love you too”



My grandmother is my inspiration. She was an extraordinary woman, someone who had more faith in God than anyone I knew. Whenever I think I can't do something, or something is too hard, I think of my grandmother. She had a life that would be hard to imagine. Her husband died of cancer in 1968, so for almost 40 years she was a widow. About eight years ago, her daughter died of cancer. She had her ups and downs, and not once, not once, did she loose her faith in God. Until the day she died, every morning she would get out of bed and kneel down and thank Him for giving her another day.



She died last September of cancer. She was 87. I still think of her often, and I miss her so very much. She and I did a lot of things together; she took me on trips she would go on, or we would simply go to the grocery store together. I will never forget her.












This is us last year in Disney World. This picture was taken about a two months before she died.