Rejoice With Me!

Yesterday, a new blessing was added to my life, a new member to my family. I am now for the first time a grandmother. My son Paul and his wife Grace had their first child.

Her name is Lindsay. She was born Sunday, January 4, 2009 at 6:19 am EST. She weighed in at 7.25 lbs. Of course, I am the proud grandmother, but I have to say, she is beautiful. Therefore, I just had to share her with my friends on Eons.

I do not yet have the experiences that some of you have of being a grandmother for several years. I am only just beginning this journey - this adventure. Tonight what I have is a heart full of joy; and memories of my son's birth and his growing up return, filling the screen of my memory with the events of his birth, his smile, his first sitting up, first steps, first words, his joy of life. I can see the events replaying again, things he said and did that brought laughter, (and sometimes embarrassment), but always joy. I remember the difficult times, too - nights when I didn't sleep because illness kept him awake. When his father died, Paul was only in his second year of life, but I remember well that he cried for his daddy. Daddy was the one who fed him dinner, played with him in the evenings, and got him ready for bed. That wonderful routine was suddenly broken and that person whom he called "da dee" was gone and he cried every evening for a long time.

Oh what times those years were! Church events, school days and events, Christmases and holidays, birthdays and parties, friends, moving, vacations, parent-teacher conferences, band concerts, football games, track meets, dates, learning how to drive! Going off to college and then law school. And then finding a wonderful woman named Grace whom he married. And now -- and now he is a father. He is entering the same journey I have traveled. He will be a wonderful father and Grace will be a marvelous loving mother. I believe in them.

I wish I could be there with them to celebrate and to help. Financially that is not possible right now, but I am with them in spirit and in prayer. My every breath today has been formed with prayers on my lips and love in my heart for my son Paul, my daughter-in-law Grace, and my new and beautiful granddaughter Lindsay.

On the wings of winter's white flurries, I send my love to the three of you,
to you my intelligent, brave, gentle son Paul


to you my lovely, thoughtful daughter-in-law Grace; you truly are your name!


and to you my beautiful precious granddaughter Lindsay

May God bless your life and fill it with His love my sweet granddaughter.

I love you three more than I can express and I thank God for each of you and the family you have made together. I feel a great honor and privilege and being one of the mothers who made it possible.

And thank you Eons for giving me a place to share my joy with my friends who are on Eons. I invite all of my friends to rejoice with me, not only in the birth of my granddaughter but in the blessings in all of your lives as well as you begin this year of 2009. May God richly bless you all!