This is the third year in a row that our granddaughter Madison has attended New Hope’s Vacation Bible School. Having her with us for almost two weeks has been, as her visits always are, a time of joy and learning. Forgive a grandfather’s bragging. She is interested in life in so many ways that she makes it more interesting for us. Our days and nights have been filled with the calls: “Grammy!” “Papa!” Madison takes me back to the days when our daughter was small. Sometimes I slip and call her Lydia.
We have tried to do the things that she wants to do around the house. Art is always important to her. So she took a toy guinea pig wearing a parachute that I bought her and outfitted him with a tool pack of binoculars, flashlight, pencil, and note pad which she made with paper and colored pencils. We watched lots of the Animal Planet Channel. We watched the movie “Wall E.” Madison enjoyed helping me feed the plants in the front of our house with Miracle Grow. We fed our neighbor’s pond gold fish.
The Bible says in Proverbs 17:6, “Grandchildren are the crowning glory of old men.” I thank God for my crowning glory. Fleda and I hope for the fulfillment of Proverbs 22:6 as we pray for our adult children and watch Madison and all the children in our church’s Vacation Bible School: “Start children off on the way they should go, and even when they are old they will not turn from it.”
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