A few weeks before she died, my grandmother—frail in body but clear as morning light in mind—called me into her room. Her hands trembled as she held mine, and in a voice softer than I’d ever heard, she asked,
“Can you lend me a little money? I need to buy something important.”
I didn’t pause. I handed her $200—more than I could easily spare—but she was my grandma. How could I say no?
She smiled, tucked the cash into the pocket of her sweater, and whispered,
“You’ll understand one day.”
I had no idea that small exchange would become one of the most tender, heart-opening moments of my life.
The Gift She Never Got to Deliver
After she passed, my mother found a sealed envelope taped to the back of Grandma’s Bible. Inside were twelve crisp $20 bills—$240 total—and a note in her familiar, looping cursive:
“For my great-grandbabies’ first books.
Tell them stories. Read to them often.
Love, Nana.”
She never had great-grandchildren. None of us did.
But she believed—deeply, unshakably—that they would come.
She didn’t spend the money on medicine. Not on comfort. Not even on a small treat for herself in her final days.
She saved every dollar I gave her—and added $40 of her own—to give a gift to children she knew, with quiet certainty, she would never hold.
She wasn’t buying books.
She was buying hope.
She was reaching across time, placing faith in a future she wouldn’t live to see—yet wanted, desperately, to bless.
Why It Broke My Heart—In the Most Beautiful Way
It wasn’t the money. It was the faith behind it.
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