Additions

# Chapter 293

Today has exciting events moving along. Helen’s water broke this morning and so we might be having a granddaughter arrival today or tomorrow. And foster baby’s court case is on zoom today and perhaps soon we can start the adoption process with him. Additions. If you don’t have additions to your life, it pretty much dries up and dies soon. You need additions in your family, in your work, in your social circles, in your church, in your travels, in your retirement, in your world. Additions are fresh life and new beginnings to everyone. A pond without a source of fresh water coming in, grows stagnant and brackish in short order. It will smell and be unpleasant and no one will get any enjoyment from that pond.

Yes we need outflows and goodbyes too, but that is a post for another day. Today is about additions. Additions to the family change the dynamic every single time. Each new member of the family brings strengths and trials and they affect all of us in some fashion. This is what gets the blood pumping and that mind working, as we integrate all the additions that God sends our way. As Brenda said this morning, we have to figure out what kind of grandparents we are going to be. There is no book or destiny here, we have to decide and then live it out, what kind of grandparent are you going to be, because just as exciting and necessary are the additions, if you are the grandparent in this tale then you are going to be part of the soon departed. What stories will they tell about you when you are gone? What kind of stories do they tell about you while you are still around?