Grandpa Update

Thank you all for your prayers and emails regarding Grandpa.  The last days have been a bit of a roller-coaster on emotions.  Doctors encouraged my family to be prepared to say good-bye, things were looking worse and worse, we all felt good peace that Grandpa wouldn't want anything drawn out, then, Grandpa started moving in response to pressure on his paralyzed side.  Now, we're not sure WHERE things are at exactly. 

Lily, Grandpa Domer and my Aunt Debby.

His kids and wife are all in Pittsburgh now, trading out time and being together, trying to figure out the present and the future.  We all greatly greatly appreciate your prayers for wisdom and peace.    

It's these times of being all over the place emotionally and wanting to be together that I feel His awesome presence.   He is so present in that room with my grandpa right now, present with my dad, present with my sister, and pressing on my heart, even here, all in the same moments.  That's some God...He is.

All the places and all the things I WISH I could be right now, He IS.  And more so.  There is such peace in that.

I mailed Grandpa a letter last Thursday, one he may never read.  But as I sat last week to write it, thanking him for birthday money he always sends, ALWAYS on time, always in a beautiful card, for every one of us, I thought for a moment about how meaningful that has been.  "You NEVER forget us, Grandpa.  Even way down here, where it's so easy to be forgotten.  Even at 90.  Even the girls.  You've never forgotten us, and I'm grateful."

So thankful to have a grandpa like that, to have a father just like him, and to have the Father never forgetting any of us, not for a moment.