Get Me to My Granddaughter

Late at night as the evening was dark so was my heart. Feeling weighed down by issues in life I decided to take a tour down memory lane instead.

As I thumbed thru my photo album I came across a picture of me and some of my granddaughters when we were at the beach. The picture I found brought a smile to my face and many good memories to remember.

The first that came to mind for some reason was the phrase I have said many a times, "just get me to my granddaughter(s) and I will be all right." Times when I have struggled with my cancer and was having difficulty walking or standing they always have known what to do.

It was my adopted granddaughter Lelania that walked me across the finish line at the breast cancer walk when my scooter died on me. It was my granddaughter Marissa who drove me places I needed to go to. It was my granddaughters Brooke and Aubrey who helped me walk out of the dentist office when I had sat too long. Even my grandson has helped me several times too. It's just wonderful knowing I have them to count on.

The help we get from Jesus is just as wonderful. He is someone we can count on. Like the bleeding woman in the Bible knew all she needed to do was get to Jesus, we need to know that as well. Like I know my grand kids will be able to help me we should know in our hearts Jesus can and will too.

As I have said before "just get me to my granddaughter(s) and/or grandson and I'll be all right" we need to say it even more when it comes to Jesus. "Just get me to Jesus and I will be all right."

What a wonderful phrase, what a glorious truth!

Copyright 2014 Karen J Gillett @ Pencil Marks and Recipes Publishing

Prayer to my granddaughter and friends from Grandma

This is a prayer I have prepared for my granddaughter and her friends. A prayer of love from a Grandma who cares.

See my earlier post titled "Fired Friend" for more details.

                                         They Call Me,

                                                          Grandma



The Prayer in the Video written out:

Dear heavenly Father I come before your throne once again to pray for my granddaughter and her friends to find a face to their pain. To know what it is in order to deal with it. Help us as their love ones to show them they are loved as we help them to receive that into their lives. I pray they will no longer buy into the lie that they are unloved, ugly, and that they are responsible for filling the void in their lives. Board up their hiding place of pot smoking, cigarettes, drinking and sex. Block their escape leaving open only the path leading straight to You, Lord God.

 

Help them to see their constant companion that is always there for them is Jesus not their marijuana. Take away the cushion they feel they can lean on as they learn to lean on You, Lord Jesus. May they realize they don’t need to feel like they want to make themselves go away.

 

May their hunger for love and attention be filled in a good way thru Jesus, their parents, love ones and friends who truly care. Keep them from believing the lie that sex and having a baby will cure what they are dealing with. May they know neither is meant to fill the void or heal the pain they are feeling deep down inside. Indeed sex, drinking, and drugs only puts a temporary bandage over something that requires the healing power of Jesus.

 

I pray they will find their bodies and inner selves in order to reclaim each for themselves and for You Lord God as they take back what life has stolen from them. May they know they don’t need to do strange things anymore in order to cope. I pray each of will stand aside in order to allow You Lord God to work the miracles in their lives that will restore themselves unto You Lord.

 

Place strong and sturdy patches over their broken hearts and spirits to reinforce the strength felt in their hearts thru You Lord God. Show them the definition of insanity is doing the same thing again and again and expecting different results. Demonstrate to them they don’t need to steal and do the things they do as they can just be themselves. May they always remember it’s Satan that wants them back in the dumpster and that it’s You Lord Jesus who wants them safe, healed and restored.

 

Draw out your hacksaw Lord God and swing it wide that You may saw away their past releasing each of them from it in order to keep them moving forward. Place each of them on the path to healing as they look deep into Your word Lord God and find promises worth having faith in, guidance, direction, and companionship instead of empty words and rules just waiting to be broken.

 

Show them how each are loved by You Lord God and may they see the worth in themselves that you see. A strong worth to treasure, a value to die for, and a wealth to bank on for all eternity, all from you Lord God.  Thank you Lord for this love, thank you for this path to eternal peace and happiness in You.

 

Prepare for them their homes in heaven; prepare on earth their hearts eternal to receive Your blessings of healing, restoration, and worth. I believe in Your promise Lord that You do not want any to perish. That You will prepare for them a situation that will bring them to the cross seeking the only thing capable of filling the void in their lives, You Lord Jesus. Keep them safe on their journey as I patiently wait at the foot of the cross for the lost sheep finally found.

 

Praise you Lord for the hope and reassurance of knowing You are capable of taking us from “Fired Friend” to “Finally Found.” I love you. I love my granddaughter. Thank you Lord for loving us both.

 

Amen (So be it)

 

 

 

Fired Friend

See the above video titled "A Prayer to my granddaughter and friends"

Recently I was fired from being my granddaughters friend on Facebook. After posting something on the network that really didn't need to be on there I responded out of concern. I was told to "butt out." That it was just some fun among friends and that there was nothing to be worried about. If there was nothing to be concerned about then why did she fire me as her friend before posting more immature stuff on her Facebook account.

In an attempt to reach out to my granddaughter I thought I would make a video like other frustrated parents or grandparents have with their kids and post it on Facebook. After several attempts to make the video I had what I thought was a good finished product. As I went to put the video on my blogspot, it didn't work. I tried posting it on Facebook and it didn't work. The only place it worked was on my computer and camera. My theory isn't the fact that I posted it wrong but the fact that Satan doesn't want to get the message out to her and others like her. The message that they need to start caring and live a more careful life as there are things God cares about and so should they.

One of the things God cares about is her and her friends. I told her on Facebook and on the video I made that I would not butt out. Someday what she was doing was going to come back to bite her in the butt and if I can prevent that from happening I will. If that is "butting in" then so be because it beats waiting until she is killed, kidnapped, or raped before I say something to prevent the destruction she is doing to herself. 

Eventually the consequences of her choices will come. It is where we as hard headed people seem to learn the most. It's just the thought of her doing herself great physical and spiritual harm. Oh but it's her choice. If that is true then the choice of a rapist or murderer or child molester is "their" choice. That's ridiculous one would argue the choice of a teenager is different. The right to choose is the right to choose isn't it?

Life is one choice right after another. Sometimes we need people to tell us what choice to make, sometimes we do well making them on our own. Either way we need to not make our choices so carelessly. Quick, on the spot, off the wings of our emotions choices aren't always good ones. Choices made to be a part of a crowd or try to see how far we can go before getting caught are not good choices.

Not a good choice is the fact that we treat Jesus the same way my granddaughter treated me. The minute He steps in to comment on our behavior we fire Him as our friend. We like Him as a friend when He is going along with everything we choose to do but when we want to go off on our own in a rebellion manner and He responds we tell Him to "butt out." We fire Him as our friend when it becomes convenient for us to do as we please and not as He instructs.

It would do us all well if we would fire our emotions and wrong choices and keep what is best for us. Indeed the ability to make right choices and keep Jesus as our friend for not only life but for all eternity.