LOOK UP

Been thinking...uh oh, not again!  Some people go on the blog site and make tough -- rebel without a cause, grumpy to the very end, etc, etc.  Then later when the blogster folks are kind or helpful to them, they show their soft insides.  I like that. 

In many ways we're all the same!  Like me, and a lot of my friends, and even Dr. Ruth (the Israeli Sniper sex therapist):  nothing is more important or better than the little voice and the arms outstretched, the fat little legs carrying your grandchild toward you - "Grandma!"  All your angst about life disappears in that second.  Almost of a fulness of joy.

I'm aware that some people don't have grandchildren, or children even;  sometimes they lament it, sometimes they act like they don't care, sometimes they ignore the situation.  Who knows what's in their hearts?   No matter how your life goes, it doesn't do to shake your fist at God, or other people, or even at yourself.  Things are as they are, and not some other way.  None of us really understands the dynamics of this world;  no, not yet.  (Let alone the next).  We can only live, and imperfectly at best.  So I have decided to enjoy my grandchildren - a wonderful, challenging part of life.  I hope you are lucky like me.

Because for a moment I don't care that I'm over sixty, have Parkinson's Disease, diabetes, arthritis, and carpal tunnel syndrome.  That my skin is muddy, my posture horrible, my body exhausted.  All that is not important.  I was here.  There are my progeny to prove it.  Even if life isn't perfect, this one thing makes me happy. 

MamaCharlie

"In the world ye shall have tribulation:   but be of good cheer;  I have overcome the world."  John 16:33

Keep looking up.