Her funeral was today - and as hard as I thought it would be - and really, as hard as it is - my heart rejoices in the assurance I have gained to know, of where she is going.
Not because of the great woman she was, not because of the countless great deeds she did, nor the numerous things she gave & taught & shared with her family, community & friends - but because she had faith in Christ as her savior.
And that's all she had to do - to accept Him - to gain that entrance. To gain entrance into the kingdom of Heaven, where her body is beautiful & perfect - where she is with her beloved mother and father, her husband, her many siblings and family & friends, who have passed on before her that accepted that same gift.
I could write a thousand pages of the beauty and amazingness of my dear, dear grandmother. I've tried in the past to explain in the smallest of ways the deep amount of joy she brought to my life - the strength she gave and taught to me - the amazing ways in which she was my beautiful, hero. But I don't feel in the moment I could begin to express anything but the sorrow my heart feels for her earthly departure...
Departing the doves...
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