Grandma

John 14:1-2 “Do not let your hearts be troubled. Trust in God, trust also in me. In my Father’s house are many rooms; if it were not so, I would have told you. I am going there to prepare a place for you.”

In the fourth grade I wrote an essay entitled “The Woman I admire Most.” Naturally, I chose Grandma Wisler as the subject of my writing. My sophomore year in high school, I again chose to write about Grandma. This time the teacher had instructed us to write a reflective essay about a person, situation, or circumstance that had a great influence on our life. At this point, Grandma had suffered a number of strokes and our family was faced with the reality that she would never really be the same.

Psalm 73:26 “My flesh and my heart may fail, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.”

In this paper I reflected on the life that my Grandma had led and the reality of the life that she now faced. I had always known that when she died Grandma would spend eternity in Heaven, but I now began to see what a strong desire she had to do so. She was ready.
Psalm 27:4 “One thing I ask of the Lord, this is what I seek; that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, to gaze upon the beauty of the Lord and to seek him in his temple.”

Today I mourn the loss of an incredible Grandmother, and am saddened by the fact that I will never see her again, here on earth; but I cannot be sad about the fact that Grandma is now in Heaven. I can’t be sad that a faithful follower has now reached her eternal home, and that she is spending eternity with her Savior. Instead, in light of the life that she led and the faith that she has instilled in my life, I can be hopeful for a Heavenly reunion with my Grandma one day.

I Corinthians 15: 50-58 “I declare to you, brothers, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, nor does the perishable inherit the imperishable. Listen, I tell you a mystery: We will not all sleep, but we will all be changed— in a flash, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed. For the perishable must clothe itself with the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality. When the perishable has been clothed with the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality, then the saying that is written will come true: "Death has been swallowed up in victory." "Where, O death, is your victory? Where, O death, is your sting?" The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law. But thanks be to God! He gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. Therefore, my dear brothers, stand firm. Let nothing move you. Always give yourselves fully to the work of the Lord, because you know that your labor in the Lord is not in vain.”