Grandma's Double Rainbow

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Grandma's Double Rainbow
My Mother use to always say,
When someone special passed away;
They'd send a rainbow to let you know,
They'd arrived in Heaven and low and behold;
On the day she left us to be with Him,
My youngest daughter came running in;
And said, "Oh! Mom, please come and see,
What Grandma's sent to you and me.
I ran outside and looked up in the sky,
We saw the rainbow and with a tear in my eye;
I looked again and there were two,
I said, "One for me and one for you."
I ran for my camera a photo to take,
It wouldn't last long, make no mistake;
I clicked away so I could show,
Everyone Grandma's double rainbow.
We talk about this every now and then,
And think about what's at the rainbow's end;
We'll see her again, I know this is true,
God has said to us, "Now, don't be blue."
"She's safe with me and all is well,
For in my house good people dwell;"
She sends God's angels to look over us,
She's o.K., for we have His word to trust.
We feel at peace and she is too,
This special thing we always knew;
Deep inside I feel this is so,
'Cause Grandma told us with her double rainbow.

Mistaken Idenity

A nurse took the tired, anxious serviceman to the bedside. "Your son is> here," she said to the old man. She had to repeat the words several times> before the patient's eyes opened.>> Heavily sedated because of the pain of his heart attack, he dimly saw >the> young uniformed Marine standing outside the oxygen tent. He reached out> his hand. The Marine wrapped his toughened fingers around the old man's> limp ones, squeezing a message of love and encouragement.>> The nurse brought a chair so that the Marine could sit beside the bed.> All through the night the young Marine sat there in the poorly lighted> ward, holding the old man's hand and offering him words of love and> strength. Occasionally, the nurse suggested that the Marine move away and> rest awhile. He refused.>> Whenever the nurse came into the ward, the Marine was oblivious of her> and of the night noises of the hospital - the clanking of the oxygen >tank,> the laughter of the night staff members exchanging greetings, the cries> and moans of the other patients. Now and then she heard him say a few> gentle words. The dying man said nothing, only held tightly to his son >all> through the night.>> Along towards dawn, the old man died. The Marine released the now> lifeless hand he had been holding and went to tell the nurse. While she> did what she had to do, he waited. Finally, she returned. She started to> offer words of sympathy, but the Marine interrupted her. "Who was that> man?" he asked. The nurse was startled, "He was your father," she> answered.>> "No, he wasn't," the Marine replied. "I never saw him before in my >life.">>> "Then why didn't you say something when I took you to him?">> "I knew right away there had been a mistake, but I also knew he needed> his son, and his son just wasn't here. When I realized that he was too> sick to tell whether or not I was his son, knowing how much he needed me,> I stayed.">>>> THE NEXT TIME SOMEONE NEEDS YOU, JUST BE THERE... STAY. WE ARE NOT HUMAN> BEINGS GOING THROUGH A TEMPORARY SPIRITUAL EXPERIENCE. WE ARE SPIRITUAL> BEINGS GOING THROUGH A TEMPORARY HUMAN EXPERIENCE. PLEASE PASS THIS ONE> ON. THIS IS WHAT WE ARE PUT ON THIS EARTH TO DO ANYWAY, RIGHT? HAVE A> GREAT DAY AND BLESS SOMEONE ELSE IN SOME LITTLE WAY TODAY!>>