Finding Strength...

We are down to the last few days of my grandma's mortal life. While I have found it difficult to see her in this condition, I am finding strength in:

• knowing that she is surrounded by her family as she makes her transition to the immortal life.
• when she takes that next step, she will be reunited with my grandpa - a reunion that is 50 years in the making.
• that happily ever afters don't necessarily stop when you stop living on this earth, they may just be paused for a bit.
  
• that the choices we made this week allow her to die as she lived, with peace and dignity.
• that we have wonderful friends who have stopped in or actually work at that hospital and gave us a reprieve from our sorrow.
• knowing I can spend time there because my kids are being well taken care of.
• that my husband understands I am where I need to be right now and he has fully taken charge of maintaining the home front.
• prayers and well wishes from family, close friends, co-workers, hospital staff.
• knowing God has a plan for her and after 96 years here, she is ready for it.

Thanks to everyone for their thoughts and prayers. You can't imagine what it means to all of us to know Bacia has so many prayers carrying her through this.

We still have a long road ahead of us as we prepare to say our final goodbyes and then try to figure out how we live without her here.

God Bless.