Do you ever have nagging thoughts that you can't escape? Especially thoughts about someone you love or someone you have known and haven't seen in a while? I wrote a couple of weeks ago that we should love those around us; take the time to appreciate them and enjoy them. Well, I have had one of those nagging thoughts, I should write, I should send a card, I should.....
I got a phone call requesting prayer for a friend of many years today. It is her birthday and she has suffered a massive stroke and is/was on the way to the hospital in the ambulance. It is not good. I wish I would have listened to that nagging thought, I wish I would have written her a letter and told her how much I loved her, how much I appreciated her and her gentle ways of teaching and loving. I pray she will be ok, but I know she has lived a very full life and a long life and is loved by many because of her generous and loving nature and good spirit. I don't want her to live with the quality of life that I know she wouldn't want and I know where she is going and who she will be with. Our Father in Heaven is and has smiled on her for many years, and should He decide to take her "Home" I know she will be without the pain of a tired and old body and content to be with her Heavenly Father and in a "New Body" for an eternity. Thank God we have a purpose, a destiny, a reason for this life and it's ups and downs.
I love you my dear Grace, and I pray God's Best for you and His desire. You will be missed by many, should this be your time to go, but you have touched the lives and hearts of everyone around you and made their lives richer by your presence.
Friends, listen to that nagging thought, it is "the still small voice" that is speaking to you. Listen and do what you were put her to do.
The flower below reminds me of Grace, So beautiful when you look at it, but if you gaze at it's beauty deeply, you will find so much more than what is on the surface. Love those around you, and let them know you love and appreciate them.