August 12, 2002

• Life looks much better after 10 hours of semi-uninterrupted sleep in a dark bedroom.  Hospital rooms are just so stinking light it is so hard to sleep in them.  I also was able to remember the song I walked down to at my wedding and the song my Grandpa had sung at his funeral.

  
  

  Because he lives, I can face tomorrow, Because he lives all fear is gone.  Because I know he holds the future then life is worth the living just because he lives.   (the chorus)

  
  

  God sent his son they called him Jesus He lived and died to buy my sin, and on that cross he sealed my pardon an empty grave is there to prove my Saviour lives. 

  
  

  Because he lives, I can face tomorrow, Because he lives all fear is gone.  Because I know he holds the future then life is worth the living just befause He lives.

  
  

  I enjoyed a very special time with Dh last night which also improved my mood.  So all and all I can do another day.

  
  

  Rainee is still wheezing something fierce.  But no retractions so I can sort of live with that.  At least until Thursday and we see the pulminologist. 

  
  

  The time spent up at my grandpa’s was pretty incredible.  We came back with a bunch of pictures that are 80 years old plus.  I’m going to be scanning them and putting them onto a family web site.  I think I’ll share a few here too

  
  

  My grandpa was a homesteader in northern Alberta.  The house he built still stands.  My great-grandparents were also homesteaders.  Their house also stands.  Here is a picture of 3 generations standing in front of it.  My mom, Rainee and I.

  
  

     

  
  

  My grandpa was a man of God.  A father of 8 children.  A WWII veteran and a hard worker.  I hope to share over the next weeks some of the things I learned or already knew about him.  I think they will encourage you.

  
  

  The thing that sticks in my head this morning.  Is my Grandpa worked until he was 70 years old.  He said when he retired that he had never quit a job that he could not go back to.  I can not say that.   Can you?

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