Pawpaw’s Bible

My mother’s mother passed away back in 2012. We had gone to see her, and while spending time with her while on the ventilator, going in and out of conciousness, she went home to be with the Lord. A few months had passed and we had gone back to her house to clean out all the estate, and to gather our inheritance. Every item that we wanted to remember her and my grandfather (who passed years before her). There were some totes set aside and in them were multiple bibles, and momentos that were my grandparents’. My sister got my Granny’s Bible and I received my Pawpaw’s bible. Well, hauling all these items back from North Carolina to our home in Tennesse, we wound up putting it all in our garage. A while passed, and I went back out to the garage and began digging. I found my Pawpaw’s bible and started looking at it. I saw how the binding was intact, but worn. I saw the notes and highlighting in the bible, and I began reading the notes. I realized that the ideas and verses my Pawpaw found important was so strange, but yet intriguing. He had a though process so odd compared to my own, yet it made perfect sense. I kept digging and digging in the word to find things that he had found important, and then it hit me. I found a card that was written to him from a child he taught in Sunday School, I found pictures of kids that he had the chance to talk to and get to know and care for, I found little trinckets from my sister, cousin, and my life. My Pawpaw didn’t just place notes he thought was important in his bible, he placed people that God had put in his life. It is a good reminder that God blesses us in many ways, and maybe we need to keep them close to our heart. Maybe we need to make the Word of God just as important to us as our family and loved ones are.