So as many of you know my amazing Grandpa Everett Leroy Small passed away last Sunday. My Grandpa was a Christian for as long as I knew him. A few weeks before he died they asked everyone at Sunday school to write down how they knew they were a Christian here is what he wrote:
I am a friend to our Savior-
Content, full trust with no hesitation
Glad to have the gift of the Holy Spirit
To guide me for the purposes He has for me
Waiting for Him to take the wedding party
To the Fathers house where He has a room for me
I have been trying and struggeling to wrote a poem about my Grandpa. Here is what I have so far come up with.
Our finger prints don't fade from the lives we touch
But i'll miss you so much
Your smell, your laugh, your touch
I'll do my best to keep my head heald high
For this is not goodbye
I'll see you in Heaven
This I know is true
For Jesus drew a plan for both me and for you
When I look up in the sky
I'll see the brightest star
And know that you are with me
Even from afar
As the song begins to play
With each passing day
the lyrics start to fade
Now the lyrics are self made
Like the ones you used to sing
All the smiles that they'd bring
Like you always used to say
Wouldn't want it to go to waste
But don't worry these memories won't be erased
I pray
When I enter the gates one day
That you will be there to greet me
Because only you can complete me
I will always remember
Our finger prints don't fade from the lives we touch

I love this. What a beautiful way to remember him.
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