Me and my Grandfather.
PostPosted: Mon Nov 19, 2012 6:17 pm
Got a Phone-call after I got home that my Grandfather is in the hospital. He is 90 years old and there is a good chance that this is it. Me and my family have not the best relationship let's just say with him, this mostly stems from the fact that he does not like my mother and does not generally like me or my brothers and sisters because of the fact that we are descended from her. This started when my mother converted to Christianity after she left the counter-culture in the 70's, after that he then got rid of the inheritance claims that my mother had (She was his first-born) and since then he has not had any good relationships with us mostly due to our religion. He has gone though a bit, from surviving the Normandy Landings and getting his hips broken in France during World War 2 to having a good number of strokes in the past 2 years. And we have helped him in a good number of things like taking care of his wife when she got Alzheimer's and passed away in 2003, and have called him up and talked with him during every social event here and visited him down in Arizona during my friend's wedding four years ago. During said visit is when the little of a healthy relationship started going down. Since that time-period he has 2 strokes and his mental health has greatly deteriorated, before those two strokes he had a very sharp mind (He was one of the top engineers in Lockheed's Skunkworks ahter all) and last time I talked to him (1 week ago) he had trouble remembering details that we talked last time in May of this year. Me and my Mother are planning to visit him and be with him in his hour of need.
During this time-period we hope that he will make peace with the Lord (From me talking to him, it appears that this whole deal about Christianity in general comes back during the 1920's with the tent revivals. He chose to not follow the Lord when he was 18 and later on all the events (World War 2 for example) that happened to him in his life made him angry with life and stuff like that) and that in this moment we will have a chance to have this problem with our relationship fixed.
During this time-period we hope that he will make peace with the Lord (From me talking to him, it appears that this whole deal about Christianity in general comes back during the 1920's with the tent revivals. He chose to not follow the Lord when he was 18 and later on all the events (World War 2 for example) that happened to him in his life made him angry with life and stuff like that) and that in this moment we will have a chance to have this problem with our relationship fixed.