Is this a funeral or a wedding?...it's both!

About 2 weeks ago my great grandmother passed away at the ripe old age of 89. I knew time was cutting short about a year ago, and the Holy Spirit definitely was telling me this, too. Every time I saw her for the past year the Holy Spirit was convicting me to share the Good News of Jesus with her. I would prepare myself to do it upon every drive going to see her, and would leave each visit feeling defeated by Satan due to fear and apathy. Well, I would always say "next time''...every time I left. Well, unfortunately, the ''next time'' was my drive to the hospital to say goodbye. On my drive there, I was thinking about what I could say to someone on the brink of tasting death. I had a huge speech prepared but when I stepped foot into the room with a howling mamaw grieved by seeing her mother dieing on a bed, all my expectations of what I wanted to say left, and I stepped back to let Christ take over. I sat down beside of her and could see the absence of mind in her lifeless eyes. The only thing I could say was she is going to see Jesus, clinging to the hope that she is a believer, since I did not know due to my lack of care earlier in our relationship. I soon realized this was her wedding with Jesus, going to meet her bridegroom and spend all of eternity with Him who died for her sins! I found out from my uncle, who is a pastor, that she was a believer and is definitely going to see Jesus!

Two days later I was at the funeral surrounded by extended family along with familiar faces. I found a beautiful hydrangea plant that had been sent to the family and told my mother how beautiful and captivating it was, and she said I could take it home. Then one of my extended family members came in and requested it, and my mother said it was already spoken for but that she would ask the person who had wanted it..which was me. I was totally willing to give it over, but the rest of the family was not willing to let their own opinions that I should keep the plant to themselves. I soon found myself in a family tug-of-war over a yellow and pink hydrangea plant. I ended up caving in and agreeing to keep the plant. We are at a funeral of a beloved family member being distracted by an earthly plant. I was soon being aggressively approached about the plant, with conniving questions about my ability to take care of a plant by this family member and decided not matter what my family thought or did, I was giving it over. I told my mother and we all three went out to the car to transfer it (my mother knowing I really did not want to give it up made me carry it.) On my way to her car I started bawling behind the huge plant and pretty much threw it to my dad and asked him to take it to the car. This got my whole family into an uproar yelling and protesting that I am keeping the plant. Dad put it back into the van and that was that. I now have a 2ft. wide plant in a 20ft. home. It is beautiful, and makes me think of my grandmother... though it was much like a brawl of single bridesmaids fighting to catch a bride's bouquet...pulling of hair, gnashing of teeth, and sweet hearts fighting for what they want. I love my dear, dear family!

The Mystery of 3219

This week, today actually, there have been a series of weird events within the household of the Shuffler,Smith,Guinn,Loveday household. I come home and see that there was some major cloggage in the toilet, and thought maybe it was Brittany. Well, turns out Brittany thought it was me... nope. Neither of us. So then we ask the roommates, and it is neither of them. We could not figure this mystery out until we realized there is a phantom toilet clogger running around the Haven who sneaks into apartments, blows up your bathroom, and leaves his claimed victim to ferment. Disgusting! Then, Brittany, Jessica and myself ALL wear the same t-shirt today. weird. I really want to find the mystery toilet clogger, and enlighten him about how I was forced to clean my toilet instead of read an amazingly relaxing book at the end of my exhausting day. Thanks, nasty, thanks. I absolutely refused to sit on that thing not knowing who's honkytonk badonkydonk had been sitting there. It will get resolved... kinda makes me think of this video.