Lenna Schrauger

I called my Grandma Schrauger today, and she told me a part of my family heritage I didn't know before.  It brought tears to my eyes!  My grandpa grew up in an orphanage, because his mother died when he was three years old.  (His father was "wine, women and song," according to my grandma.)  When he was older, my grandpa was asked to talk on the radio for about 10 minutes to fill in for someone else that day.  Grandpa, by then a Christian and a pastor, talked about his mother, mentioned the town, and said that he did not know if his mother had ever became a Christian.  He didn't know if he would see her in heaven some day.  Not long later he recieved a letter in the mail from someone who had been listening to Grandpa during his lunch break.  This man wrote that his father had been a pastor in that town, and he called his father to ask if he had ever met the woman,  Lenna Schrauger.  The man told his son, "You tell that young man that I led her to the Lord three weeks before she died of cancer!"  Grandpa was astonished and deeply touched by the letter, and would get tears in his eyes every time he told that story.  He used to say that someday he would go to heaven, and meet his mother!  Praise the Lord - what a wonderful salvation story!  My great-grandma is in heaven!

Grant Schrauger

I woke up to buzzing, and it wasn't the baby monitor.  I realized it was a phone somewhere and said something to Jon, who mumbled back.  As I lay there, I thought that if it was my phone, whoever it was would try the home phone next, but they never did.  I got up to check, and it was my brother.  I was filled with concern - why would he have called in the middle of the night, unless it was bad news?  He answered and sadly told me that our grandpa had died about an hour before.  I still don't know any more details than that.  I do know that he was wanting and ready to be with the Lord, and with a gulp, Jon and I talked about him seeing Josh and Timothy, and Taylor.  It feels entirely different, almost a joyful - right thing.  He has been sick for so many years, but God let him see his sons graduate, get married, have kids, them graduate, get married, and then his great-grandchildren!  How much more will he enjoy the future years (if they measure time) with his Father.