Tuesday, October 2, 2012

Feelings

This is a guest post by Nate.

Tonight for Family Home Evening, we talked about our family and wrote letters to the children's Great-Grandparents.  We started by discussing who they are, including those who are no longer with us.  Then the following unedited conversation took place.  Enjoy this window into Jimmy's perspective on life.

Mom: "What kinds of things could we write in our letters?"
Jimmy: "We could write the things we feel."
M: "Ok, Buv, like what?"
J: "Like, 'We feel sad that you died'."
M: "But the people we are writing letters to are still alive."
J: "Oh. Then we could write, 'We are happy that you stayed alive'."

What a touching sentiment.  I don't know how our living grandparents would feel about Jimmy's letter, but I know a couple of those on the other side would have really enjoyed it.

3 comments:

emilysigler said...

For my sharing time last week on honoring parents, I had the kids write thank you notes to their parents. Shad's (to me) said "Thanks for staying alive." sure thing, buddy.

emilysigler said...

for my sharing time last week on honoring parents, I asked the kids to write thank you notes to their parents. Shad's (to me) said "thanks for staying alive." sure thing, buddy.

Sally Morrison said...

I remember when Grace asked Grandpa C when he was going to die. And he said, 'not yet, I hope'.