~Nana Bean~

I'm gonna miss you, Nana---
 miss calling you up for conversation

 miss your words of wisdom, those priceless tidbits,

 life lessons-- tinged with your sweet, Southern twang.

Who else is going to offer me my "Eye-talian" dressing with my salad?

Or ask for my fiancee "Beeeah-Jaaaay" to speak with on the tele?

Who will be there to applaud my greatest triumphs?

And pray with me--

stay with me--

in my deepest defeats?

I will miss your hands the most

I can still see them if I close my eyes--

capable, warm, open always--

offering love and kindness--

and readily accepting all that life had to bestow--

good and bad--

with a grateful heart and faith forged in the fire of daily doing, and breathing, and being

beautiful~

I love you Nana Bean.

You are the light, the love and the laughter that laid my foundation...that breathed love and grace and peace over my life.

You will be missed. 

You are loved~