Prayers for My Grandparents

Thank you. Thank you to everyone that has prayed for me, my wife, my family, and as of late, my grandparents. I don't know how I could ever say this enough, but my spirit is lifted and filled with love when anyone tells me they have prayed for me or one of my loved ones.

My friend, and brother in Christ, Andy Quaranta, stopped me the other night at church and asked about my grandparents. I shared the latest and he looked me in the eyes and said, "I pray for them everyday."

I stopped, holding back tears, and said thank you. I can't think of anything more encouraging and loving than someone's prayers to our Father for me or my family. What a blessing!

So many of you that have been praying for my grandparents do not even know them. They are simply names on a prayer list at our church, and yet, so many saints have spent moments alone with the Lord speaking their names, lifting up petitions to the throne of grace and mercy.

So, this is where I am-I feel that I am being drawn, and Holy Spirit-led, to tell you about my grandparents. I want to share with you some of their life story. Please be patient. I am sure this will not come easy because many tears will be shed on this end of the blogosphere and onto my keyboard, but I want to shine a light on just a small portion of their lives. I guess this is a way for me to give back something to them for leaving the legacy of our family to us. Their lives have not been perfect by any means. They would let you know that. There have been plenty of trials, heartaches, dissentions, and griefs to bare, but I know that sin has put that in the heart of every man. I will NOT focus on the negative. I refuse to dwell on any past mistakes or life choices. We all have plenty of those. Instead, I choose to look at the blessings of life. Forgiveness is my theme just as grace and mercy from the Lord are the strength of my faith.

For my own sake, and I hope yours, I desire to harken back to times when family and values meant something, and when divorce was not as easy as ordering shoes online. There is much to glean from our pasts, and much to share with our newest "Me-generation."

Stay tuned. I will tell some of their story. I want to share just a piece of their journey from humble beginnings that once was a blueprint for families in our country, and now is all but lost in this selfish/faithless, twenty-first century America.

Times have truly changed.

May I tell you the story of the Rushes?

I thank God for all your prayers!

Wink and Jean Ann