Trusting Him while life shall last...

Sometimes, when you are looking for something fairly insignificant you come across something pretty significant that you weren't looking for and it makes you think.
Today while looking through files of scanned pictures from my parent's house I came across the scanned obituary and funeral program for my Grandma Lillian. I don't remember her much, she died when I was in Grade 1. At the age of 56, my Grandma passed away after battling breast cancer, and then a brain tumor. I remember the day that she passed I was at my babysitters for lunch when my parents came to bring me home and tell me she had passed. We had hotdogs for lunch. Funny, the things we remember sometimes.
I don't remember much about her as a person. What I know I got from pictures, my parents never really talked about her, that's how a lot of things go with my family... things happen, but we don't really talk about it, at least on my dad's side of the family anyway.
Back to my discovery today. It was certainly an interesting look into the life of this lady, who played a big role in my young life, but whom I never really got the chance to know. I learned a lot about her by reading her tribute. My Grandma came to know the Lord through her grandfather. Under his Godly influence, my Grandma became a follower of Jesus Christ at the age of seven. My Grandma faithfully participated in church all throughout her youth and became a leader in the church when she became an adult. She took her relationship with Jesus Christ very seriously and felt it her responsibility to visit the sick, help the needy and encourage those who were weak. My grandma was active in the church up until she passed away. The writer of her tribute quoted Proverbs 31 - "Her husband praiseth her; Her children rise up and call her blessed; Her works praise her in the gates".
I had no idea my Grandma was the amazing woman of God that her tribute describes her as.... I wish I had had the opportunity to know her.
As I read through the program for her funeral, one of the songs really struck home with me. Amazing words and something I needed a reminder of. Thanks Grandma Lillian.

Simply trusting everyday,
Trusting through a stormy way.
Even when my faith is small,
Trusting Jesus, that is all.

Chorus:
Trusting as the moments fly,
Trusting as the days go by.
Trusting him whate'er befall,
Trusting Jesus, that is all.

Brightly doth his Spirit shine,
into this poor heart of mine;
While he leads I need not fall,
Trusting Jesus, that is all.

Singing, if my way be clear,
Praying, if the path be drear.
If in danger, for Him call;
Trusting Jesus, that is all.

Trusting Him while life shall last,
Trusting Him till earth be past,
Til within the jasper wall;
Trusting Jesus, that is all.
[Edgar Page Stites]