Today is April fools day and also Great Grandma Brown’s birthday so my Husband and I are celebrating 🥳 her life —especially because she was the older woman who taught me blessings of being a worker at home. Early in her marriage she had a dress shop that led to not a few heartbreaks and her family. However, she soon became a stay at home, wife and mother. I loved her so much even though she wasn’t my “real” grandmother. I’ve shared this elsewhere, but for those of you who don’t know about grandma Brown from A WISE WOMAN
“My late Grandma Brown was a woman who demonstrated this lovely character of contentment. No matter what she was doing: scrubbing the floor on her hands and knees or doing her handiwork alone, she was happy. She never complained. She said she never thought about where she would rather be nor what she would rather be doing,..”
Another thing that makes this special woman so precious to me was because I asked GOD for her when I was very young. Because my parents were older by the time I was born I had no grandparents. I was often “adopted” by my friend’s grandmothers, but it was never the same as having my very own. That’s when I married my EH earthly husband and she was my very own. To prove how incredible GOD is, after she found out about her grandsons adultery. I became her favorite. Even after she passed away, my EH said that she loved me best and I became her favorite. No Joke. Only God could do something so special and answer the prayers of a little girl.
Dear Erin, thank you for sharing, what a beautiful testimony and celebration of your late Grandma Brown’s life. God is so incredible.
Thank you for sharing about grandma brown and her contentment in whatever she was doing… l want to cultivate this way of living in my daily life as a w@h being content whether I’m cooking or cleaning or doing washing.. my mom in law was and is who taught me to love deeply especially giving lots of hugs and always saying l love you ❤ praise God for these wonderful older women He blessed us with 😘
Thank you for sharing about Grandma Brown, I have heard so much about her and I am excited to meet her one day. What I did not remember us talking about is that Grandma Brown and my own mother that passed away shared a birthday. She was also born on April 1st and I celebrated her 73rd birthday. 🥳
Grandmas are really important in our lives!! And they are a huge blessing!! I am experiencing the same, because my EH grandma adopted me!! Because we live a few meters away, she loves to take care of me!! I had never experience this before so I am enjoying being a favorite!!
It is a blessing from my HH!!
Thank you for sharing!!
Thank you for sharing dear Erin, despite not knowing her, Grandma Brown also ministers my life with her example of contentment, thank you for sharing it with us. And thanks to our Beloved for putting wonderful older women who instruct us on the right path and sow wonderful seeds of wisdom in our lives.
Thank you for sharing, everyone. Grandma Brown would be thrilled and adopt you all.
I remember Grandma Brown a lot from the Wise Woman episode, because I was the opposite of her, so she became an older woman who I wanted to follow her example.
I find it so nice that you celebrate with your Husband the birthdays of your loved ones to honor them.
Having a grandma is such a huge blessing, I had both my grandmas in my life, but my dad’s parents stayed in Namibia so we would go and visit them once a year and they would visit us once a year. Although I loved her very much, it was my grandma on my mom’s side that really made a huge impact on my life because of all the weekends and holidays spend with her. She was also so content in everything she did, from working outside in the vegetable garden to working inside, she never complained, and I never saw her angry.
Oh, what a blessing Adina! Thank you for sharing. It made me think of what I’m watching my Husband doing with ME as a Grandmother. Some I video chat with every week, some I text once a week, but a few I can’t seem to connect with often enough. BUT He’s started doing something because I CAN’T make it happen. Only He can and wants us to, yet again, ask and trust Him—”delighting ourselves in Him giving us the desires of our hearts.”
Yesterday my third grandson became a teenager!! But I had such a difficult time reaching him (later I discovered his phone he’d lost, he either found or got another). Weary, I just LET GO and GAVE UP, giving it to my Husband to sort out, I heard from his dad on FB messenger (never connect with him there, to confirm it was HIM doing it), to let me know he had his phone. Then before I realized what I was doing, I called him and we talked for 45 minutes before he got another birthday call.
This morning I texted and suggested I call once a week just to see how his week went, and did the same to his sister, my granddaughter, who I’d texted back and forth when I LET GO and GAVE UP!
As I tell my Husband when I begin to feel anxious to make this plan happen (I’m probably not the only one who does this), “It’s not my problem, it’s YOURS,” and if it’s His, it’s not a problem is it?!?!
Please agree with me that this year my Husband will make a way for me to become closer to all 10 of my grandchildren, who live it six different states. Nothing is IMPOSSIBLE with HIM!!