We will miss you

Grandma,

As I think about you being gone from this world, there are many things I will miss, and many things I won’t forget. I remember playing shuffleboard at your house, or tennis after your hip surgery. I remember on the way home from school asking you to drive to stop signs, instead of your famous five hundred meter glide. You always said it saved on gas and brakes. I confess I have been known to, “glide” occasionally myself. There were many things about you that would frustrate the heck out of me, but more things about you that I loved and respected.
You used to visit so many lonely, and sick people. You occasionally dragged me along to play some tunes. I loved how, as you got older, your heart got softer instead of harder. I will pray this for your daughters! I remember asking if you thought it was okay to enter a bar if Jesus asked me to. You reluctantly approved and said, “It would be okay”. I thought, “I finally got her!!” I wondered if you felt defeated or just more understood.
I loved when you would sit in the chair beside my piano and I would look over to see your tears. It made me feel like I was doing something good. Thanks you, Grandma, for investing in and believing in my gift. I am sad not to be able to give you back this gift at your big day of celebration. You and I had so many songs picked for me to play. I guess some caned professional guy will have to do. There is an emptiness and a surplus in me, because of you Granny Hawkins! I love and miss you, and may the kingdom of God advance in your death as it has through your life!

Jason