If there is one thing I have learned about Google it's that... once you put something online in the name of Google - it is almost impossible (for this ancient mind, anyway) to take it down. I have been trying to clean up my various YouTube channels. Yes, I have too many and here I am not remembering my email or passwords from 10+ years ago. So well.. anyway.
I come to blogger (thank you, Google for preserving all things Gracie) and everything is still as it was. I started a new blog for Bubbles (our new baby) but I have not been consistent in growing it or updating it. I like Blogger because I feel comfortable here, writing my thoughts, sharing my photos, and interacting with long-lost friends who do not care if my punctuation is off or if I am foolishly writing about silly, everyday stuff. That's what life is all about.
*sigh*
I was so hurt to lose Gracie, I wanted to put it all behind me. But Bubbles has helped me to conclude that my Gracie days are not over at all. She lives on in my heart, just as many of my family and friends do - who have passed on from this life.
Memories are a beautiful thing and today I am reviewing old journals, both prayer journals and daily journals. I intend to do this for a while because I believe that is what God is leading me to do. Going back five, ten, or even twenty-some years - I can see so much about who I was and how God worked to bring me clarity and vision on how to go forward each day despite my weaknesses and sins and be better.
Still, every morning I need to examine my ways, thoughts, and life in general and ask God to reveal to me the stuff of life that will draw me closer to Him and away from myself. Keeping a journal is a good way to document God's faithfulness and it is great at showing me that I'm not all I felt I was cracked up to be. Haha!
I miss my girl Gracie. I'm looking for Bubbles 'voice' to share. But so far there are only two loving eyes watching my every move and frantically following me from room to room to make sure I do not get out of her sight.
I hope this year finds happiness and contentment for all.
BUBBLES GRACIE. MINUTES BEFORE LEAVING THIS LIFE.
You have so many great stories and tributes about Gracie on line and in your book! So she will never be forgotten by so many people!!
ReplyDeleteI miss Gracie too, Bubbles is a cutie-pie. We have lost family pets and it hurts our hearts. Thank you for visiting me! Have a blessed day dear friend, HUGS!
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