Spirit Awakening

My four grandchildren are all the loves of my life and the heart of my heart. Without their even knowing it, they are the reasons I wake up each morning and want to take care of my health. I want to live a long life so that I can be with them for each of their life cycle events. I dream about them and plan different scenarious with them. Sometimes I imagine that we're all in a marching band wearing identical red, white and blue t-shirts; they are marching behind me to the commands I give out. Sometimes I want us to be in a show, on stage, where we are performing for lots of people to the marching tunes of John Philip Sousa. Everyone is applauding because they are so good. Sometimes in my dreams they are very small infants and after they are one or two months old, they start talking in complete sentences and no one can believe that they're doing that. It must be a grandma's pride that makes me have dreams like that.

When I am not having such a good day, my thoughts will often turn to my little ones and I will imagine how they run up to me and hug and kiss me after not having seen me for a long time. And then I feel refreshed, my spirits soar and I feel blessed for what I have been given.