Permanent Teeth

WOW! What a month it has been in our family... one that has been filled with all types of emotions! Everything from loss, sadness, regret...to joy, peace, love. You name it...I think we've felt it. (are feeling it)


As I was talking to my husband yesterday morning...( trying to sort thru my emotions-like I do my dirty laundry),  I told him the best way I could explain it is that I feel like someone has knocked me right in the mouth. After the initial shock and  pain, I realize that my tooth (my grandmother) has come out...yet it's still barely hangin' on by a tiny thread. (my grandfather) There's no way it can stay like this. Not for long, anyway. In fact, it only took 4 weeks to the day for this tooth to be completely GONE!  This is so surreal to me.  Because you see, I've had this tooth all my life and I'm just not use to there being an empty space there. It just doesn't feel right. There is something missing.


As I explained this to him,  feeling very empty and somewhat lost, he just looked at me and smiled and said..."but honey, don't you see, there's a permanent tooth coming in it's place!"  In my heart, I thought WOW! He's right... (I knew I married that man for a good reason!)


I am so thankful for permanent teeth, aren't you? They're bigger, better and stronger. They're forever.


Lord, thank you for our "permanent teeth." Sometimes we feel like this space could never be filled...that things will never be the same. But help us to realize that there is something PERMANENT coming in it's place! And that is to spend eternity in YOUR presence and with the ones we love.


Put that under your pillow and sleep on it tonight!!!   :)


As I end this, I just want to thank everyone from the bottom of my heart. What dear friends we have! Your thoughts, prayers, calls, emails, texts, cards, food, hugs, toilet paper ;), visits, etc. have been overwhelming! You will never know how much my family and I appreciate you. Really.


Most of all, I thank the Lord, for his mercies and blessings during this time.  He has revealed Himself  in so many ways...prayers in hospital waiting rooms from complete strangers, motorhome trip shared by my father and grandfather the week before he passed away, minor "road blocks" keeping my parents in town the day my Grandfather died, and most of all allowing my grandparents to only be apart for 4 weeks.  He is so gracious!