MyGuardian Angel

My guardian angel is my great-grandmother Stella Elizabeth Dodd.  She will be 91 years old next month.  She has been battling kidney failure for the past 4 years.  She is a very strong woman and she is full of wisdom.  She has helped raise 32 grand children and other people that have needed help at some point in their life.  Almost all the grand children have lived with her.  Granny taught them how to spread their wings and fly. She has loved all of us when we where unloveable and given us tough love when we needed it. She is the only great grandmother I have known.  We go and visit her often and when we do it makes me sad to know that one day I will not be able to sit and listen to all the stories she tells.  I ask her if she is ready to go to heaven and she says yes in the most confident voice I have ever heard.  She is a strong woman of faith and I know that she will be sitting at the feet of Jesus when she passes away.  It still does not make it easy, but knowing I will see her again one day make me happy.  I sure will miss her.  My mom is really close to her and I know it will be hard on my mom.  Granny babysat my mom and her sibling growing up because my grandma worked.  My mom spend a lot of time with Granny and she calls Granny her second mom.  I am thankful that my mom will be able to pass on traditions my Granny started in our family.