I see your face in every flower...

"The mere idea of you,
the longing here for you…
You’ll never know how slow the moments go
‘til I’m near to you.

I see your face in every flower,
your eyes in stars above.
It’s just the thought of you,
the very thought of you,
my love."

I will miss my Granddad. And I don't know why this song has become associated to him, but I was walking around on Thursday the 14th, and saw a flower bed and remembered my Granddad and his garden, and the line I see your face in every flower has been embedded there ever since.

When the ice cream man came to work and gave us free ice cream today, I remembered my Granddad and his homemade ice cream then. And when my friend Elizabeth brought in her daughter Paige I thought about my Granddad then. A friend told me that I will miss him and be sad for a while, but that eventually it would pass and then I would see him in my dreams.

I hope somewhere my Granddad remembers me. I hope he is watching and is present for all the important days of my life. I wouldn't be here if it weren't for him. I hope that I can live up to the high standards that he set forth. I miss him a lot. Everything is exactly the same but yet it's all different. And while I know he lived a full, long, joyous life I still miss him and wish that I had had more time to appreciate him. I miss my Granddad. May God bless and keep the family that he has left behind, and may we do service to his life and memory by living our best lives.

Blessed are those who mourn,
for they will be comforted.
Matthew 5:4