Oh I try not to take anything for granted but today I am especially aware of all of my blessings. This morning I was able to hold my new grandson and just marvel at the beautiful miracle he is. I was able to spend the afternoon and evening "walking the road" with my older grandchildren who are so precious to me.
When I was a little girl I remember going to my grandmother's house in the summer. We would go to bed early and I would fall asleep listening to her tell me stories in bed. We would get up early in the morning, before the sun was even up, to get ready to go to work. My grandmother worked in a flower shop and it was an honor to get up early and go with her.
She would share so many things about life with me as we would wrap stems, arrange flowers, and help customers. I found out many years later that she would get up even earlier than I knew about to pray for all of her children, grandchildren, and eventually, great-grandchildren. Grandma "walked the road" with me.
I remember in high school, leaving my house just before 6:00 in the evening to meet my dad at the bus stop so I could walk the rest of the way home with him. He would share stories with me about people with disabilities that wanted and needed jobs but employers just looked at their limitations rather than their gifts and talents. He taught me how to come up with "reasonable accommodations" so they could be employed and share those gifts. Dad "walked the road" with me.
I certainly tried to walk the road with my children and I enjoy it even more now having adult children. We have so many interests and aspirations that are similar. When I walk the road with my grandchildren it is like lying in the grass looking at the moon and the stars and dreaming of all kinds of amazing things. I love sharing about life and people with them and seeing the legacy of their ancestors playing out in their hearts.
We have the wonderful opportunity to teach our children about love and not hate, grace and not judgment, inclusion and not separation. All we have to do is "walk the road" with them.
Deuteronomy 6:4-9New International Version (NIV)
4 Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one.[a] 5 Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength. 6 These commandments that I give you today are to be on your hearts. 7 Impress them on your children. Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up. 8 Tie them as symbols on your hands and bind them on your foreheads. 9 Write them on the doorframes of your houses and on your gates.
When I was a little girl I remember going to my grandmother's house in the summer. We would go to bed early and I would fall asleep listening to her tell me stories in bed. We would get up early in the morning, before the sun was even up, to get ready to go to work. My grandmother worked in a flower shop and it was an honor to get up early and go with her.
She would share so many things about life with me as we would wrap stems, arrange flowers, and help customers. I found out many years later that she would get up even earlier than I knew about to pray for all of her children, grandchildren, and eventually, great-grandchildren. Grandma "walked the road" with me.
I remember in high school, leaving my house just before 6:00 in the evening to meet my dad at the bus stop so I could walk the rest of the way home with him. He would share stories with me about people with disabilities that wanted and needed jobs but employers just looked at their limitations rather than their gifts and talents. He taught me how to come up with "reasonable accommodations" so they could be employed and share those gifts. Dad "walked the road" with me.
I certainly tried to walk the road with my children and I enjoy it even more now having adult children. We have so many interests and aspirations that are similar. When I walk the road with my grandchildren it is like lying in the grass looking at the moon and the stars and dreaming of all kinds of amazing things. I love sharing about life and people with them and seeing the legacy of their ancestors playing out in their hearts.
We have the wonderful opportunity to teach our children about love and not hate, grace and not judgment, inclusion and not separation. All we have to do is "walk the road" with them.
Deuteronomy 6:4-9New International Version (NIV)
4 Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one.[a] 5 Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength. 6 These commandments that I give you today are to be on your hearts. 7 Impress them on your children. Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up. 8 Tie them as symbols on your hands and bind them on your foreheads. 9 Write them on the doorframes of your houses and on your gates.
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