"G" Whiz

I got nominated for being assigned a letter of the alphabet for which you pick ten words and explain their significance in your life. My letter is "G", so here we go.

1. GOD--first, foremost, and most amazingly, personal, real, and available to us through His Son.

2. GRAMMIE--the newest season in my life, which I totally and absolutely just love. And being "grammie" is especially sweet to me because my daughters called my mother "grammie" and she called her grandmother "gram". And as my sweet Gilly tells me, "We love each other SO much!!"

3. GIGGLES--it has been my very great joy to have so many days of my life seasoned with the laughter of children. My own babies and other peoples. And my mother told me that hearing my children laugh reminded her of me as a little girl.

4. GLUTEN FREE--I learned last March that I shouldn't eat wheat, rye, oats and barley--ever again in my whole life. Do you have any idea how many places in the food chain wheat is hiding? And that spontenaity flies out the window when you can't eat something you can't verify is safe?

5. GENESIS--one of my favorite books of the Bible. Not only does it have lots of the wonderful stories we all learned in Sunday School, but it is a gold mine of wisdom and understanding as we grow older. The foundation of God's plan for His creation and the promise of His Messiah are in this amazing book.

6. GOING--I love going. I love the process of traveling to someplace else, I love being someplace else, I love coming home to the comfortable and familiar. We spent 4 years traveling 2 hours each way to worship with a congregation that some very dear friends of ours were establishing in another city and I never got tired of the journey. And I love our dependable little workhorse of a car--VW New Beetle Diesel (50 mpg, thank you very much!)--which keeps driving affordable in these day of $2.75 per gallon fuel.

7. GREEN--not my favorite color. It's my brother's favorite color. But my favorite color is blue and that doesn't start with a "G". Blue is beautiful; green--not so much.

8. GRIEG--I don't know that I would call him my favorite composer, because I like so much of what so many other people wrote, too. But his Peer Gynt Suite is not only really good listening but also the source of a favorite memory. (See post) And the beginning part of his Concerto is some key or another is great.

9. GENERATIONS--the older I get, the more I love the connectedness of life. The memories of my childhood in the 1950's, the stories my mother told me of growing up in the 30's, and my children's memories of growing up in the 80's are a part of our family history. As I watch my grandchildren grow, I am more aware of the importance of building a legacy in their lives, of sharing with them the love of God who sees from the first generation to the last. Deut 7:9

10. GIT R DONE--Our lives have been greatly enriched by the wonderful young men our daughters married. They are bright and funny, good husbands and fathers. And, since I don''t get out much :-) , I hear much of what is current in the world through one of them. The first time I ever heard this expression was from Clay. And it cracked me up. So even though it belongs to culture, I think of this as his own personal funny.