Intentionally Grmazing

I work part-time at a local funeral home in my community where I serve as a media & design developer. This is the same funeral home that my family used during the passing of my dear grandmother. This week alone I created three memorial tributes for families that lost loved ones; one was the grandmother of one our of family's closest friends and the other was a cousin of our family. But this morning something happened that I didn't expect. I received a phone call that a very special cousin of mine had passed early this morning. My grandmother's death was difficult for me. Not because I was caught off guard by her passing, but because she was my best friend and one of the closest people to my heart. She knew my struggles, she knew my pain, but most importantly above all else, she celebrated my accomplishments. She was the Titus 2 woman in my life that the scripture talks about: {Titus 2:3-5} "The aged women likewise, that they be in behaviour as becometh holine...

Todays post takes a different turn. It's really sparked by a conversation that I was having with my mother. Yesterday, my mother began to explain some things that she thought I needed to do to get ready for a certain occasion coming up. Everything that she had expressed was already on my to-do-list. As she was talking this particular thought crossed my mind... Does my mother really know who I am? I know that mothers tell their children things out of their best interests, and really our age has nothing to do with it, because my grandmother was 92 and she always shared her thoughts with my mom so that's not exactly what I'm referring too. My mother is a great mother, and she knows a lot about me but are there some things that my mom don't know about me? YES! We can live with people or around people for the majority of our lives and they really don't know exactly who we are. What I mean by that is....they know your name, your age, they know your style, the...