Titus 2 Tuesday ~ Gma

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This week, I’m honoring my precious Grandmother. Affectionately known to her 6 granddaughters, 3 great granddaughters and one great grandson as “G-ma”, my grandmother is a true matriarch, a true legacy, and a true Christian woman.


Yesterday, I had the opportunity to take Gma to the oral surgeon for a quick procedure. As is typical, the entire trip was worth remembering! Here are a few snippets of what was heard during our time together:

- While sitting at a green light waiting to turn left, Gma says, “Go! You can go!” I most certainly could not go, though. . . less she be creamed by an oncoming car. That’s when I quickly reminded Gma I was driving this buggy! She just laughed! Ha Ha!!

- Upon entering the doctor’s office, Gma says, “shoo, this place smells like medicine!”

- She refused to put her social security number on their patient information sheet. She gave me an ear full about that. “Someone” recently told her not to “ever EVER” do that. My money is that Nancy Grace has recently said that. Gma takes anything Nancy says to the bank!

- Since I was taking my lunch break to do this little trip, I was checking my emails on my phone. Gma leans over and says, “Are you texting? Or are you on that facebook thing?” She then has me explain both texting and facebook to her. She doesn’t understand why it’s called texting. Why not messaging?

- And that conversation led to blogs. I’ve mentioned before my cousin also writes a blog. Gma’s heard us talking about them, so I was trying to explain to Gma that they’re basically online journals. Gma seemed to think that was a little silly; aren’t journals supposed to be of your deep, private thoughts? She didn’t seem too interested until I told her Seoul-Mama uses hers mainly to document their adoption of Seoul-baby. Gma perked up then and thought blogs were an excellent idea!

- And only my 89-year-old Grandmother would come out of having a tooth extracted with gauze sticking straight out of her mouth and talk the ENTIRE ride home. She was non-stop! It was hilarious!

- Gma made me cookies as a thank you. Never mind that my favorites are her chocolate chip cookies. Nope, she gave me a batch of her homemade peanut butter cookies. Conveniently Tim’s favorite and Gma knows it!

Throughout my almost 30 years, Gma’s taught me so much. So many verses come to mind because my Gma taught them to me. I know Hebrews 13:8 ~ “Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever.” ~ because of my Gma. She shared that verse with me after my Daddy died. I cherish it so very much.  I remember that being the second time in my life I'd seen my Gma cry; the first time was two years before when Gpa passed away. I also think of Gma when I think of a true woman of beauty and strength, such as Esther. And a true Proverbs 31 woman. Yep, that’s my Gma.
 
So after dropping her off at home, after her assuring me she would be just fine – with that gauze still shoved in her mouth – I left to return to work and thanked my God for her, for her humor, her wit, her legacy, and her love.