I am revising the song from “Annie” a bit as I sing today: “Tomorrow, tomorrow, I love ya tomorrow, your [only] a day away!”
Tomorrow is 14 days following my second COVID-19 vaccine. You may be a non-vaccine person, and that is your choice, but Bob and I got the vaccine as soon as it was available to us. It was recommended for us by our family physician because of our age and health conditions.
What it means is that tomorrow I can safely visit my grandchildren and get hugs & kisses now according to the CDC guidelines. (I got to hug my oldest grandson this past Thursday as he came for a visit from Portland. I did it without fear, figuring I was close enough to “tomorrow!”)
And in about a month, we are going to California and I am going to hug my California grandsons without fear! I have not seen them since December 2019. It has been a long, long time between hugs & kisses.
Proverbs 17:6 expresses what I (and probably most grandmothers and grandfathers) feel … “Grandchildren are the crown of the elderly.”
I am so thankful to God for my three grandsons. I love them dearly. I hate that they live far away. I hate that this virus kept us from seeing them for so long.
I am also thankful for the vaccine that is giving us the freedom to get the hugs & kisses that we so long for!
Thank you, LORD, for this blessing! Amen.
