A Letter to My Grandson

Just know that I love you so much and am praying very hard that you would truly love God and have a spectacular life!

Joseph J. Bucci , Bio and Archives--August 20, 2026

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I asked your mom and dad to give this letter to you when you reached an age when you might better understand all that I have written here. I am sorry that I am not able to personally talk to you about all of this. I prayed that I would have more time to watch you grow and speak into your life, but the Good Lord promised us through the Psalmist that “our times are in His hands” (Ps 31:15). There are two ways this could have gone. I might still be here with you, in a place where I can no longer really communicate.

I wanted to give you something that would outlast me

Or--more likely, because Nana and I planned for this, and we agreed it would not be right for me to just let a machine control my breathing--I will have already passed on to the new life and will not have been able to tell you this in person. So I wanted to be sure that I wrote these things down while I could think through them, before the time when I might not be able to string these thoughts together.

Your mom and dad love you very much. You are a precious gift to their family and to ours as our first grandchild and first grandson. We prayed for a long time that God would give to our family a special young man with energy and passion and wonder. And you are that one! So you are the leader of the pack; the oldest grandchild.

I looked forward to having a grandson with whom I could play games and attend his soccer and baseball games as he was growing up. If you’re reading this, it could be that I did participate in those things. But more than likely, I missed many of these opportunities, perhaps because of distance; and or possibly because I was so sick at the end. I also hoped that when you got older, we might talk about the deeper, important things of life: those spiritual things that people say we are not supposed to talk about. I hoped that with my years of serving the Lord that I could be an encouragement to you as you started to grapple with your own spiritual questions. But more than the games and the seasons I may have missed, I wanted to give you something that would outlast me.

It is so important that you........

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