Hello everyone - been a crazy few months, but I'm back.
I have some thoughts I'd like to get down.
One of my relatives was expecting a baby around the time my granddad passed. She didn't attend the funeral as she's a long way away from us, she had uni exams and was really too pregnant to make such a long trip.
Anyway, tonight, she has had her DS (I am shouting this all over MN as I can't tell anyone IRL yet!) and I've been thinking. I've always believed in there being A Plan for us all, that God has a plan of our lives and knows what we will face.
I only recently started my journey so for a long while, it was just a Plan, rather than His Plan, IYSWIM?
Well, today marks the 4 month anniversary of my granddad's passing, and this new life has begun. I am overjoyed for my relative and her DP, but sad that my granddad never met the new arrival.
But, I think this was God's plan, for the anniversary date to be a time that, in the future we can remember as "oh little X is 4 months old now" not "It's been 6 months since Y died." Am I making sense?
Also, another relative sadly lost a baby to cot death - this little boy was only 9 weeks old :( Do you think, that my granddad and our other relatives are taking care of him, watching over all of us together?
I do. I find that thought comforting. Like the thought that my granddad has returned home, and that everyone has a home with God, when our work in this physical world is done.
My granddad raised 2 children to adulthood, helped his son cope with a disabling accident, then cared for him, along with us all. He saw me reach 23 years old, and graduate university. His work here was done, maybe he knew it was time to return home, and allow this new life to be born?
Thanks for listening to that, I feel better writing it all down - sorry it's so long!