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Saying "goodbye" is never fun and when that "goodbye" is in the form of a funeral - it is even harder. Yesterday we said goodbye to our dear friend, Rozella Hartley. She was known better to us as "Grandma Hartley". Although not blood related, we still felt loved as if we were blood relations. We met Sr. Hartley while we were assistant pastor's at Zanesville and she and her husband quickly became very dear to our family. They traveled to ISF each month with us and we made such dear memories with them. When we moved from Zanesville they came and spent several days at our new pastorate visiting with us and making more memories. She was faithful to write us letters and to call us every month. We had no doubt that she loved us and prayed for us. We will miss her but Heaven is sweeter.
Now for the "hello" part!! Hello's are much easier than goodbyes for most. I am more backward and not necessarily comfortable with meeting new people but the rest of my family has no trouble with this. So, last night on the way home from Zanesville we stopped by the Warren Bible Methodist church and said, "Hello" (ie. made new friends) to Rev. & Mrs. Henry Miller. The Millers are in revival there this week and Daryl & Marilyn invited us to stop by. We had a lovely evening visiting and getting to know Rev. & Mrs. Miller a little bit. Hopefully our children didn't scare them off from coming to our church in the fall for revival!!! At one point Rev. Miller said, "Oh, I can't remember ....." to which Kenton promptly said, "when you get old you tend to forget things." Oh gracious. That was clearly a "can I crawl under the table and hide" moment.
The song comes to mind.... "Sometimes we laugh together, sometimes we cry. Sometimes we share together, heartaches and sighs. Sometimes to we dream together of how it will be.... when we all get to Heaven - God's family!" That about sums up our day together. Lots and lots of tears and ended with lots of laughs!!!
Now for the "hello" part!! Hello's are much easier than goodbyes for most. I am more backward and not necessarily comfortable with meeting new people but the rest of my family has no trouble with this. So, last night on the way home from Zanesville we stopped by the Warren Bible Methodist church and said, "Hello" (ie. made new friends) to Rev. & Mrs. Henry Miller. The Millers are in revival there this week and Daryl & Marilyn invited us to stop by. We had a lovely evening visiting and getting to know Rev. & Mrs. Miller a little bit. Hopefully our children didn't scare them off from coming to our church in the fall for revival!!! At one point Rev. Miller said, "Oh, I can't remember ....." to which Kenton promptly said, "when you get old you tend to forget things." Oh gracious. That was clearly a "can I crawl under the table and hide" moment.
The song comes to mind.... "Sometimes we laugh together, sometimes we cry. Sometimes we share together, heartaches and sighs. Sometimes to we dream together of how it will be.... when we all get to Heaven - God's family!" That about sums up our day together. Lots and lots of tears and ended with lots of laughs!!!
P.S. We did get a picture of Ashley but I'm fairly certain that if I posted it she would never speak to us again!! LOL
2 comments:
I was so happy to see my parent's picture on your blog! Glad you got to meet them. And, listen, you have nothing to worry about with Kenton and my dad. He has 9 grandsons (who would likely say the same) and 2 granddaughters (also likely). I'm sure he thought it was great!
~ Melodie
Awwwww, the Millers are my sister in law's mom and dad. They are wonderful people!! That is soooooo funny what Kenton said!!
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