Belated update...

I want to thank you all for your prayers, both up to now and in the time to come.

After a short, wreakless night of battling my heartfelt thoughts with God, commanding him that it was NOT my grandfather's time, my innermost being heard a voice telling me "I'm going away now....I'm going to be with Grandma."
This morning at 730 am I got a phone call from my mother at the hospital telling me that he wasn't responding to dialysis, and that his body was not reversing itself as was hoped. I was also to inform my father that we were to pick up my grandparent's will from the bank on the way to the hospital....and therefore we could come later (ie. after 10am). By 9 am my mom called to say that we no longer needed the will. A neurologist had been in to see him and declared him brain dead. Therefore, we were left with no choice but to fulfill his will and pull the plug. At 12pm, he was pulled off life support, and within less than 5 minutes, he was gone.

There are SOOOOO many questions that surround all this. My grandmother passed away suddenly on September 24, 2004 and was buried on the 28th. Now, 2 years later to the exact hour (9am when we received news that he was brain dead) my grandfather passed away. Did he really go to be with my Grandmother? Had they planned it as such? Over the past year my grandfather spoke on many occasions of having seen my grandmother in dreams, during which time they clarified many of their misunderstandings here on earth....and they were at peace. My grandmother hid a lot of things on my grandmother, sometime during the last couple of weeks my grandfather had claimed that my grandmother had shown him were some of the photos were that she had hidden. ....those photos gave him the closer that he needed. He died just 14 days shy of his 77 birthday.

Now here raises another question.....just how valid is scripture, and literal is its translation meant to be when it says, (paraphrase) "all who believe in me will be saved."? As far as we know, my neither my grandfather, nor grandmother were Christians......but they were not bad people....not perfect, but not bad. Does that mean that they'll forever burn in the fires of hell!?! I can't imagine for the life of me that God would sentence such wonderful, heroic people to eternal hell, simply b/c they chose not to believe in him......that just doesn't make sense. Almost makes me want to throw in the towel! ...but I wont.....I can't imagine not seeing either of them ever again.

Sooooo many questions.......such confusion as to why my grandfather's death was such deja va in regards to my grandmother's passing. Is it all just coincidence!?!

Anyways...I'm out..... PLEASE continue to remember my family in your prayers as we vogue on the journey of funeral preparations and closing their estate.
Thanks, and God's Blessings to you!

Jennine