GRANDMOTHERS LAUGHING AT YOU, card 18

Grandmothers Laughing at You


WHO ARE YOU?

I am the one who...

I am the one who laughs at you and all your seriousness. I am the one who knows it’s all just silly to get so worked up, fighting over Gods and religion.

I am the one who knows it doesn’t matter, all the arguments and law, all the details that can’t be missed. I am the one who doesn’t care if the rituals are perfect or right or said in a certain language.

I am the one who loves you, loves that you have faith as trembling and fumbling as it may be.

I am the one who just wants you to love and believe; whatever the form, whatever the way.

If you love that’s good enough for me.

I am the one who remembers play and laughter and wants laughter to ring thru the halls of God.

I am the one who forgets to be serious and enjoy the beauty and the awe.

I am the one who laughs until she cries tears of joy and tears of sorrow; who feels it all and revels in it.


WHAT DO YOU GIVE ME?

I give you...

I give you permission to laugh, to forget the seriousness.

I give you permission to cry, to feel and to let it all out.

I give you permission to be and to love and to grieve and feel all that you need to feel.

I give you beautiful things that are full of awe and grief. I give you that heart stopping feeling of grief and joy and sorrow and hate.

I know your grief and I know your pain and your guilt for not feeling more.


WHAT DO YOU WANT ME TO DO?

I want you to...

I want you to open up and let it out, feel, feel the emotions.

I want you to stop closing yourself off.

I want you to share and to smile with relief.

I want you to know relief and peace and the love of grandmothers, the grandmothers at peace
and rest.


I am the one who is your grandmothers laughing and at peace.

I am the one who holds them and hold you.

I am the one who loves you as your grandmothers love you and love your family and remember you as you remember them.

I am the one who feels as you, feels the pain, the sorrow and the wordless emotions.

I am the one who knows them too.

I am the one who feels them too.

I am the one who gives them names for you.

~

On January 3rd 2008, Margaret Lloyd, Mother, Grandmother and Great-Grandmother Passed away.
On January 5th 2008 Ruth Nugent Ellis, Mother, Grandmother and Great-Grandmother Passed away.

Two grandmother's greatly loved and are greatly missed.

Though I made this card over a month ago, it wasn't until Jan 6th that I heard the card speak.