Remembering With Great Joy

Last night I was trying so very hard to go to sleep, but my mind kept racing.  Ever experienced that?  You just cannot shut the thing off?!  Well, that was me last night.  It probably didn’t help that I was looking at social media and texting friends to let them know that another friend had her baby {YAY!!!}.

So as I was just laying there, counting sheep, I decided that a better way to spend my time wide awake would be to finish my study on Esther.  I have been using the She Reads Truth app on my phone, to read through the Esther study.

What better thing to do when you can’t sleep {not look at social media!!} but to read your Bible OR pray!?!  Praying is also very good.

So I finished Esther.

Day 13 is called “Remembering”.  And as I read through the devotional portion by Amanda Bible Williams {true story}, she talked about how her mom kept prayer journals and what they meant/mean to her.

I started remembering my Nama.  These pictures were taken the last Christmas we were together with her.

 

This one was taken, I believe, when she was in her early 20’s:

An amazingly beautiful lady, inside and out.  She was such a delight to me as a young girl.  I find myself often thinking of her and wondering how she would handle different situations.  What would she tell me?  How would she encourage or challenge me?

I remembered back to the day of her funeral and having the privilege of sitting at a table with my dad, aunts and uncle, hearing them tell stories of her being a Proverbs 31 woman.  As females, we try to be the Proverbs 31 woman…it’s a daily striving.  And she was it.  She was what those verses describe.

Then I remembered back to 2012 when we had our family reunion.  I think it was my Aunt Martha who brought several things that belonged to both my Nama and my PawPaw.  I took pictures of things that I knew would go to others in our family, including her New Testament Bible and some prayers that she had written.  Partly because I wanted to preserve the memory of her penmanship, and also to know the prayers she prayed.

I share them with you here:

 

“We will not hide them from their children, but tell to the coming generation the glorious deeds of the Lord, and His might, and the wonders that He has done.” Psalm 78:4

She didn’t hide her faith from her children or her grandchildren.  I remember her faith…I see it in these prayers and as I know who God is in my own life, I know who He was in her life.

Is there someone in your life that you remember with great joy and love?  Please share!