Greetings!
It’s been quite awhile since I’ve posted. Occasionally, life has a way of carrying me off temporarily. On April 30, 2011, I greeted my second grandson into the world. That was exciting and scary at the same time. Coming into the world and leaving the world are momentous occasions that many of us are not equipped to handle. It seems that we resist and fight against both coming and going! My last post was the end of March and it seemed that the month of April was spent getting ready for the baby’s arrival and the months since then have been spent adjusting the family and him to his arrival. No, I did not misspeak, that’s exactly what we’ve been doing. His arrival heralded a lot of changes for him and for us, his family, on so many levels. It’s amazing how much can change when someone arrives. I’m more accustomed to the adjustments required when a family member leaves than when they arrive but I’m not complaining! It’s definitely a lot more fun and joyful. It just rather took me by surprise. Naively, I was expecting that since this was a second not a first child, grandchild that there wouldn’t be as much change for all of us as there had been the first time around. Silly me. Of course change, even good change, is stressful so the blog got put on the back burner. I’ve lost a great many family members over the years and so the birth of grandchildren is especially sweet. God’s promise that life is going on despite the many that are leaving or have left. After so many years of family passing over, it’s very joyful to be greeting family coming back.
I want to share with you that Spirit gave me a peek at my grandson a week before he was born. I was in bed one night, falling asleep, when I heard my name being called which of course immediately woke me up. This is what usually happens, very annoying. After all these years, you would think that by now I would have developed the ability to stay in that in-between state when I get called but it never happens that way. For some reason, it wakes me up which of course takes me away from where the action is happening! So, I lay there, puzzled as to why I’m being called, asking questions of Spirit if anything is wrong, etc. Not finding anything wrong, I decide it must be nothing and begin to fall asleep again. Just as I do, I see a man’s arms holding a swaddled baby out towards me. The baby has big blue eyes, soft red hair sticking up on the top of his head and he is grinning ear to ear at me as if to say “Hi, Nana, I’m so excited!” He looks like an impish little elf. His left side is towards me and I catch a glimpse of a dimple somewhere before I pop out of the in-between state. I was concerned at first because this is the kind of thing that happens when someone is about to pass over in my family. But a few questions to Spirit relieved my concern that he wouldn’t make it here safely. He arrived a week later. He is now 2 months old and is finally looking like the peek that Spirit gave me. A blue eyed, grinning, elfin baby and after I gave him a proper bath in the sink with baby shampoo last weekend, his hair even stands up on top. Oh, and the dimple is only in his left cheek. 🙂
Love, Dawn
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