Since I started the journey of writing the other day, I have been thinking a lot about one person from my past. I have been really feeling like she is right beside me. It has been a really interesting feeling and everything she taught me keeps going through my mind.

This woman is one of four Grandmothers I have been blessed to have. I call her Mama Mae. Mama Mae was a tiny, strong, and beautiful little old lady. But I can also tell you that she was funny, loving, blunt, and knew exactly who God is. She is a true without-a-doubt knower.  I actually thought that she was married to a man named Jesus when I was young. And to be completely honest I thought she was crazy!

I lived right down the street from Mama Mae when I was a child. I was able to go to Mama Mae’s house any time that I wanted. So I did!

She used to tell me stories, jokes, and make me honey sandwiches. I loved going to her house. She was fun, always had something crazy to say, and she was always working on writing a book. I think she wrote everyday for pretty much her whole life. I felt like we were both kids that someone let hangout in an old wooden house.

She lived on a big property with acres of land to run around on and huge trees that you could climb. We would pick grapes from a vine, eat pears from a huge tree, and I would ride my bike as fast as I could down a dirt path and jump down a hill that went straight to her home.

She lived on the waterway that everyone in town calls Whiskey Creek. It was so much fun to look out the windows of her house and watch the boats go by or try to see what the other people were doing in the houses across the water way.

She was always telling me stories about Jesus and all these other people that God chose to carry out his mission. She used to also say funny things like… I’m so T….U….R….D….Tired. That I could F….A….R….T….Faint. But I will never forget the day that she told me she did not believe in dinosaurs because they were not in the bible. I was shocked and definitely decided that second that she really was crazy. But the past couple of days may have completely changed my mind and I think she might not be as crazy as I thought back then.

I actually 100 percent believed that dinosaurs were real! But why? I have never seen any of these dinosaurs. I have never run into a t-rex or rode the back of a Brachiosaurus. But I can see the bones or what they say are bones and what they have evolved into. But thinking now, how was I 100 percent sure that there really were dinosaurs?

It hit me the other day when I was thinking about her and what she said that day. There have been so many signs and bones laying around to prove that God is real and I have just been missing the signs my entire life. These signs have been pouring in lately and my signs have been more proving that God is more real than believing in dinosaurs. So I guess I have to believe in both because I can’t really see a dinosaur and I couldn’t see God. It’s really not that hard for me to see now.

#15…Don’t just believe in Dinosaurs, believe in God also! Follow his signs and listen to the people that tell his stories. They are not as crazy as you thought.

In closing, I was telling this story to my sister today and she said, “Did you know that today is Mama Mae’s Birthday? She would have been 95″…….I totally forgot!! I have so much more to say about her but I will end today with:

Happy Birthday Mama Mae, this one’s for you and I love you! Tell your man Jesus I said Hey.

God Bless,

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