This month begins a series of several anniversaries we'd rather not remember but are forever burned in our hearts...those who've moved on are in my thoughts so much lately...thinking oh they love this or they'd love that...or can it really be that long since we've seen them...sometimes it feels like forever and other days it was like just yesterday...
But on a brighter note...today is Charli Grace's 4th birthday...maw maw's birthday was just last month so she too, has been on my mind alot...remembering all they things she taught me over the years I had the honor to be a part of her life...and today, I was thinking how much she would love this precious little girl we call Miss Charli! So I thought it only fitting to take Charli down to Maw Maw's house and take a few pictures of her there for her birthday...
While Charli and I were taking picture God just began to talk to my heart...about what an amazing heritage Charli has behind her...a great grandmother who worked hard all of her life to make ends meet...who loved people with such a sweet love...who would help anyone out...made the best meatloaf in the world...had the best oatmeal cookies in the cookie jar always...had a bowl of dominos for the grands to play with...who loved our kids so much...and had such an attachment with our Michael...but even more than this...she loved
Jesus...and she prayed her family would love Jesus...that's the hertiage Charli has behind her...
Then we walked to the creek...and Poppa came to mind...a man who, like his mom, worked so hard to take care of his family...who, in my opinion, has one of the prettiest place in the county...who liked to tease people unmercifully! (anyone remember who he used to sing, She thinks my tractors sexy to?) Who had a nickname for just about everyone...so creative and yet named his dog...dog! Who taught my husband how to be a man...and how to be a man who loves Jesus! I know Poppa also prayed for his family to love and serve Jesus...we took pictues by the old black Ford and the old car in poppas yard and in the hay field...I looked out accross that field...and thought if he were here he'd be about 3 weeks out from beginning haying season...again...you know he worked so hard on that farm...but he took Sunday's off...it was a rare occasion to see him in the field on a Sunday!...I'm thankful that he loved so well...and that he loved Jesus...again, this is her heritage...she asked me about poppa today while we were taking pictures and I was telling her how much mawmaw and he would love her and how beautiful they would think she was...she asked why they went to heaven and I told her because they were such great people Jesus decided He wanted to spend time with them now...she said in all her innocence...well when we are babies before we get born we are in heaven and then we get to go back to heaven again someday!...yes sweet baby if Jesus is in our hearts we get to go back again....and now as she gets another year older I find myself thinking I will begin now to pray for her legacy she will leave on this world in her old age...I pray that for all 12 of them...Ayden, Landon, Rylee, Caleb, Camden, Laney Kate, Char, Journie, Kale, Ella, Bear and Lundy Claire...your sucess in this life will only be found in Christ....
