Do you ever feel this way?

By Karen Best Wright, www.RaisingYourGrandchildren.com

As a woman and grandmother raising grandchildren, I often face trials that I would rather not face. I know there are many of you feeling much the same way. So this is for those of you who may be facing difficult trials on a daily basis.

My life right now feels like a continuous ferris wheel ride. Every morning I wake up knowing that I am going around again. The only problem is that I know that one of the spokes of the wheel is cracked. Will today be the day that the spoke breaks and the ferris wheel comes crashing down, changing my life forever? Or will today be the day that the ferris wheel comes to a stop, letting me get off and feel the solid ground once again.

I do not know. While I am trying to not fear what I perceive to be the worst, I am also trying to prepare myself and have faith that no matter the outcome, I am on the path that was set for me in the beginning. May God and the Holy Spirits bring peace to my thoughts and guide my every step is my prayer.

Karen Wright, B.S.
Grandmother raising grandchildren
www.RaisingYourGrandchildren.com
www.BlogforHealthyLiving.com

Comments

[Susan Adcox]

As you know, Karen, I'm a grandmother but not a grandparent raising grandchildren. Nonetheless, this is exactly how I have been feeling lately. It's the Club Sandwich Generation phenomenon. I'm a grandmother, a mother, a wife, and a daughter, and as a daughter I'm serving as primary caregiver for my 93-year-old father. Some days I just keep thinking, "I can't do this any more." But then I keep doing it, just as you do. I hope your wild ride eases up soon!

[Jean]

We all feel like this once in awhile Karen. I was so broken hearted the other day when my granddaughter asked me...'Why does my new friend get to do anything she wants at her grandmas and we can't?' To explain her new friend was only visiting grandma and she lives with grandma, broke my heart. Yet, through it all, she understands the trials and tribulations God has given us. She loves hearing us tell her how much we love her living with us!
God only gives us what He knows we can handle.
Stop on over and help rename my blog!

[Trisha Alling]

This has been my life and grandson's for the past five years.. i finally convinced my daughter to give me the rights to my grandson (whom has been living with me on and off since birth 5.8 years ago)... I have finally been able to get him into the dentist, which he had 6 cavities, get his school physical, register him for kindergarten, take him for an eye exam (he needs glasses), try to find him a doctor that will help him with his sensory processing disorder and the pysch doctor to help him deal with what ever problems may arise...And now I get a telephone call from a man who has not bother to see his son in 4.5 years, and would like to become part of his life..I have no compassion for this man who thinks that I am going to throw another ball into my grandchilds court and tell him to catch!!!! I think the child has enough to deal with... i know he is the legal father but I told him that when I think his son is ready, when his world slows down then maybe I will think about slowly introducing them.... I just don't understand how these parents have taken no responsibility emotionally/financially for this beautiful little boy, who wants nothing more to be loved and understood and except him to stop his life as it is now and jump into their arms like nothing has happened...I love him to death and I will never allow anything or anyone to interfere in his world that has been spinning out of control for the past 5 years and and is final slowing down... It will never come to a full halt but as long as I have him in my life we may be able to keep it from speeding up again...

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