Wow, SummitOfAmbition
I loved your story about your baptist grandmother. I found myself having a very vivid image of my very devout Southern Baptist grandmother sitting in her chair reading her bible....she had been dead about 17 years and I still miss her deeply at times. While she was a "typical" southern Baptist lady, i.e. taught sunday school and vacation bible school, I loved that she would spend hours talking to me about God and about what happens after people die...and where God lives and other questions that come from a little kid. When a sunday school teacher introduced me to the idea of the holy spirit that didn't fit the baptist viewpoint i.e. "being charasmatic" my grandmother was the only one who would continue to talk to me about the ideas and my experiences. My mom just blew me off as being crazy but my grandmother and I would talk about bibical passages together. I loved when I could go to church with her and sit in "big church". She would let me hold her hand all during the sermon...I think I like holding her hand more than hearing the sermon....but as an adult I know that there are many ways to experience God and holding my grandmothers hand in church and other places was an experience of God.
I write this with tears running down my face because I miss her physical presents yet I feel so very lucky that I had the many years of experience with her..and that she loved me so much. I was with her the night she died. I knew she was dying and had spend the previous months reading Steven Levine's book Conscious Living. My mother and I were both in the room and our experiences were so different. My grandmothers death was filled with love and light in my perception. She turned her body (which she had been unable to do for a weeek or so) and looked at me with eyes so filled with love that I knew beyond a shadow of a doubt that she was meeting God in those brief moments. Her beautiful blue eyes shown with a light that I had never seen before and I will never forget the power in that moment.
Well, I have further derailed this post from Sound Health Sound Wealth...I apologize. Yet I so wanted to respond to your post about your grandmother. Thank you for your post.
Nickie
