Gram Cam
Have you ever held someone as they passed away
Watched them as they took their last breath
Saw family and friends spend the last moments together with someone
Literally watched someone die…..
I have…..last night
We have been going to our contacts church the whole month helping out at the service, cleaning and teaching English lessons. The first day we got there our contact Tven introduced us to this old woman who lived next door who was very sick and wanted us to pray for her.
This woman is very old and spends her days laying on a bed outside under a mosquito net. She is skin and bones, and when I say that, I mean nothing more. You can feel and see her hip bones, see the bones that make up her arm, she is withering away. She can’t eat and has no energy to move. She does know English a little so we can have a basic conversation, she can’t fully talk, but we can kind of interpret the breaths of what she says. Our contact has talked to her about Jesus for a while and she HAS excepted Christ, so she allows us to pray for her. We called her Grandma Cambodia (aka Gram Cam) and I went to visit, talk and pray for her everyday we went to the church from that day on.
Fast forward to 2 nights ago. English class was over so I went over to visit with her and say hi. When I went over it was surreal, it felt like a movie. She was lying there with lit candles all around and one of her family members next to her. I go up and say hello and she always gives the biggest smile!!
I say, “Hey Grandma!! How are you today? Did you eat anything today?”
She said, “Hi” and “no” (no she hasn’t eaten anything)
I said, “Grandma we love you and are praying for you, we love you so much!!!”
She, in one of the sweetest moments of my life, lifts her hand, touches my face and says, “Love you”
I was speechless and have never felt that feeling before in my life. This woman has no energy to eat, but she has the energy to put her hand on my face and tell me that she loves me!!!
I ended by telling her how much Jesus loves her and that she will be home with Him soon!!!
We leave to go home for the night. The next day our contact gets the call, she has passed away and the funeral was right now. What we didn’t know until this moment, but this woman was our contacts Aunt!!! This was his family!!! So he invited us to her funeral and we all got ready and left. (In Cambodian culture, you mourn for a death for 7 days, and on the 7th day you have a festival to honor and celebrate their lives.) When we got there I walked to where all these people were standing to pay my respects, and when I get closer to Gram Cams body to see her I notice….that she is still breathing!!!!
