ANSWERED PRAYERS

Sunday morning, August 17, 2025, 8 a.m.- On the way to New Life Chapel in West Chester, Ohio to watch my grandson, Travis be baptized with his children, Charlotte-age 10, and Decker-age 9. What a blessing to see my lifelong dreams and prayers being answered. Prayers for each of mine for the most important decision in a lifetime-to accept Jesus Christ as their Saviour to spend eternity with Him in Heaven. A few weeks before I also had the privilege of seeing Trav's wife, Alexcis, be baptized. Glory!! Thank you, LORD! My life's verse has been Proverbs 22:6 "Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it." My faith is in that verse. Then thoughts went back to our precious Granny, Myrtle Crockett, who was widowed twice but raised her two children through very lean years. To her Bible laying on my desk with her prayer on the last page for her son going off to WW11-that God return him safely. I treasure that Bible with its barely legible prayer and God did bring him back home. Forward to our mother, Christine Crockett Grigsby, who persevered in getting us five kids to church-Sunday mornings and evenings, sometimes Wednesday night services even though our dad would not attend church with us. Dad became a Christian in 1962 because of Mom's faith and dedication. I was married with two children and they had been married 24 years by that time. Then thoughts forward to October, 1964 as I stood outside the NICU watching Melinda, my baby [Travis's mother], in her isolette. In the spring of '64 she and I had been caught in the measles epidemic that had gone across the nation so when she was born she was whisked into the NICU. I promised God if He would just let her be ok and let me take her home to be with her brother and sisters, I would keep focused on bringing them up in His will. He did as I asked and I did as I promised though I failed many times, backslid for periods of times, became disheartened many times but God strengthened me to get back on His path every time. So there I was at 8 a.m. trekking across 275 to New Life Chapel musing over my 85 years of the paths we have taken. I have had the great joy of being with other grandchildren at their baptisms-Erica and Daniel:

So thank you, LORD, for your salvation and my children, my grandchildren, my great, grandchildren and being part of their lives: