Most Important Person of 2008

Time Magazine is currently working on their "Most Important Person of 2008". Of course, Barack Obama is in the lead. My pastor posted a blog http://www.withoutwax.tv/ on the topic today asking who in OUR lives should be nominated for Most Important Person of the Year.

It got me thinking about who has influenced me or impacted my life most in 2008 and I'll be quite honest no one came immediately to mind. That's not to say no one impacted my life over the course of the year or that I don't surround myself with absolutely amazing people, but there wasn't one person that stood out more than the rest.

After some deep thinking, I have selected my nominee......my grandmother, Mary Jean Ramage. She is the most selfless and Godly woman I know, and she has taught me many things this year.

1. She has taught me to be positive no matter what the circumstances. We lost my grandfather, her husband, in January to cancer and I've never seen anyone respond as well as she did. I'm sure she has had her share of tears and grief, but she has always been such a joy to be around and did more to lift our spirits than we did to lift hers. She was an amazing wife through thick and thin when papow was at his best and his worst.

2. She is the most selfless, thoughtful person. She has been suffering from chronic luekemia for almost 2 years now and no one really even knew until a month ago. She claims that we were all so worried about papow that she couldn't bear the thought of us worrying about her, too. She was able to keep it under control with medication until about a week ago. It was when I found out she would be undergoing her first 6 hour chemo treatment that I found out she was even sick. She hasn't complained, she hasn't griped, and she still has the same joy in her heart that she has had for years.

3. She lives life each day knowing that God is in control and that we can do more good by remaining positive and joyful than by dwelling on our sorrows. I hope and pray that I can be the woman, mother, and grandmother one day that she is today.

I love you mamow!!!! I'm praying for you!!!