Lord, Just Take Me

Sitting in Granny's room, sitting by the bedside, it's intersting of the transformation that is taking place. We've all said it. We've all said, "Lord, just take me, take me today, I'm ready".
Are we? I sat by my Dadddy's bedside 'til his dieing breath, and today I sit by Granny's. We are here saying, she's ready, Lord, just take her and let her rest in your arms. At times when someone comes in Granny seems to know that someone new has come to see her, and I wonder if she is waiting on that someone that hasn't come. We tell her every time someone calls.
All of you who are not here, I write this to inform you , not to pour guilt on you. We can't all be here. You saw the numbers the other day. There are 123 of us directly kin to this wonderful woman, and that's just on Mamma and Aunt Del Rae's side of the family. That's not counting all of the numerous Phipp's that spread the globe. We love you all and she does too. You can't all be here, it just isn't physically possible.
I sit in her room and think of all the times that someone hangs on to life for as long as possible. Why is that? Why do we do that? While we are alive and well and things get tough we ask the Lord to take us, so we don't have to deal with all the stresses that life throws at us. However, when I see someone in the condition that Granny is in and the condition that Daddy was in, I think that they just find it hard to leave us.
It must be harder to leave than we think. It must be hard to leave the children, the grand children, the great gandchildren and the great great grandchildren, the nephews, neices, and grand nephes and neices, the in-laws, and the friends. Love is powerful. Love speaks profoundly, when you ask, "Why doesn't she just go?" Even when she knows she is tired, she knows she has the permission from we who she is leaving behind, it is hard to let go.
I'm of a mind that it is not that easy to leave this world and enter the spirit world. As awesome as it may seem, it's hard to leave the ones you love behind. We won't know until it's our turn. It makes us understand the scriptures even better when He tells us to let our light shine daily.
Granny, it's okay, we love you and again we say, it's okay to go and be with our Lord and wait for us there. We'll miss you, but we can't wait to see your smiling face again. It just gives us one more reason to live the life that is intended so that we can get that chance to be with you and others who have passed on before us.
Good bye Granny, Love you

Friends

I just want to say Hi to all my friends. It has been awhile since i posted something and I intend to get back into the swing of things. So, this is just a note to say, I'm back, and thanks for reading my posts.
Until later,
Eddie