Compassionate
Loving
Would give the shirt off her back
Hospitable
Kind
Way Smarter than she thinks
Animal Lover
Great Dancer (she doesn't remember that I've seen her dance!)
The best imaginable example to me
Selfless
Incredible Cook
Talented Artist
Involved Grandmother
So Fun!
Gayle is one of those people who confirm to me that God loves me beyond measure. You may ask why. Not because Gayle tells me that God loves me. But because, just by the simple fact that she is in my life, I know God loves me. You see God sent her to me and my family some 26 or so years ago.
In the early 1980s, Ed and I had just recently moved to Nashville. We were very young parents with no family nor friends here. I worked with Gayle at that time. She pretty much adopted us and our children as her own and went about caring for us, supporting us, chastising us (when we needed it), feeding us, encouraging us, and generally just loving us.
If you were able to gather all of the people that Gayle has known in her life into one HUGE gymnasium and polled them to ask for one or two words that would convey Gayle's character, I am certain two words you would hear again and again would be giving and kind.
It is amazing how many people she has helped, served, and loved during her life. Gayle embodies a saying that someone recently introduced me to - Love Wins. And love wins because of people like Gayle who are Christlike in the manner in which they serve and care for others.
I love her more than she will ever know.
Loving
Would give the shirt off her back
Hospitable
Kind
Way Smarter than she thinks
Animal Lover
Great Dancer (she doesn't remember that I've seen her dance!)
The best imaginable example to me
Selfless
Incredible Cook
Talented Artist
Involved Grandmother
So Fun!
Gayle is one of those people who confirm to me that God loves me beyond measure. You may ask why. Not because Gayle tells me that God loves me. But because, just by the simple fact that she is in my life, I know God loves me. You see God sent her to me and my family some 26 or so years ago.
In the early 1980s, Ed and I had just recently moved to Nashville. We were very young parents with no family nor friends here. I worked with Gayle at that time. She pretty much adopted us and our children as her own and went about caring for us, supporting us, chastising us (when we needed it), feeding us, encouraging us, and generally just loving us.
If you were able to gather all of the people that Gayle has known in her life into one HUGE gymnasium and polled them to ask for one or two words that would convey Gayle's character, I am certain two words you would hear again and again would be giving and kind.
It is amazing how many people she has helped, served, and loved during her life. Gayle embodies a saying that someone recently introduced me to - Love Wins. And love wins because of people like Gayle who are Christlike in the manner in which they serve and care for others.
I love her more than she will ever know.
2 comments:
Aaawww, what a blessing God sent you!
And now you are paying it forward.
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