The Wallpaper in Heaven

Posted by Liana at 1:16 PM

In a perfect world, our friends and family would ALL be there next weekend to celebrate with us as we get married. In a perfect world, our grandparents would all be alive and would be right there with everyone else.

Veils would arrive on time, work wouldn't pile up, and people wouldn't bail at the last minute. But this world is far from perfect... this is something we are aware of more and more each day. It's only in heaven that we can count on these things.

Yesterday morning I was talking to my mom and she mentions that Grandma Lehman was complaining about the wallpaper in her room at the new nursing home. She doesn't like the new place because of the wallpaper!

Last night we were told she was in really bad shape. She had told the nurses aid earlier that day "it's time for me to go." Her heart wasn't beating, just "vibrating" and she'd been put on oxygen and was unconscious for a while. During this time a women from Hospice stayed with her and said while she was out, she raised her hands to the ceiling. When she came to, they asked her what she was reaching for and she said "I could see light, I was trying to get to it." My father was already in Ohio for work, so he rushed over so he could see her first thing in the morning. We were told she would "pull through" by tomorrow or we should call family to say their good byes in the next few days. She didn't make it through the morning.



While it's a sad, sad time for our family, we know grandma is up there in heaven now smiling down. She's walking and dancing on her own and can hear and speak and write as well as she did when she was my age. She lived half her life burdened from the effects of a stroke when she was 50 but was SUCH a fighter and always wanted to be swimming and out and about even up until the last years. She's home with grandpa now and they're probably fishing and playing ball!

Goodbye grandma, we miss you both. But we know you're enjoying the wallpaper in heaven!