| Kept Memories |
| Beautiful memories of you I keep No longer in this life to speak But I'm keeping the very best of you I've buried them deep inside Well do I remember How you combed your hair for hours You were our own little Southern Belle Painted your lips that pale peach Had a shining smile for everyone Gleaming, glowing, graceful, sparkling I smile as I remember a dinner out The time you forgot to say grace We looked in amazement as you started eating laughing, in the middle of the salad, you said, um, um Lord please forgive me, I didn't mean not to pray I was just so hungry after four and half hours of Sunday school and then church I'll remember, and treasure times as these I will treasure all the love you gave Everytime you kept our kids Never wanting any pay As I remember that love It will take the pain away I'll keep these memories with me Smiling in my heart Reaching for them if I'm a little down Keeping them close, drawing from them never letting them depart I'll smile from within my heart, sister dear always, Watch over us from heaven sister dear, I'll celebrate with you there one day! |
| Keeping the memories |
| I was waken in the night by a dream, by a voice I heard in the night. The voice I knew spoke and said, I' going to come and take your sister home. Immediately I cried out no! Lord, that's not right. I will plead to you. I will intercede and pray. The voice said, no! she's' tired, she needs rest. I'm going to come for her and take her home. Days went by, and my sister called me on the phone. She was histerical, worried about one of her daughters and what harm would come to her. I calmingly said, it will be allright sis. She will not come to any harm. In the back of my mind, was the other voice I heard, but there was no way, I could say to her, its not your daughter sister dear, but it will be you instead. We talked some more and then we hung up and went to bed. |
| The dream was in June, and July we had a two year family reunion in Florida. August came, and we all went to Worlds of Fun in Kansas CIty. The sun was shinning and it looked as if this trip was somehow better than the one we spent in the sunshine state. Somehow, I think that is one of God's best plans. To let you have good memories on the day that this all would end. My sister had a headache that day. She took some medicine and seemed to be okay. |
| On the way home, she had such a smile on her face. I was sitting in the back seat when I saw such a glow on her face. I don't know if anyone else saw it but she looked up to heaven with such a smile on her face. Somehow, I knew somehow that this would be the day. My sister blacked out at home an had fallen in the bathtub. My husband had stopped by and while there he tried to revive her while waiting for the EMT services. At the hospital, the doctors tried to revive her, but it was too late, my dear sister well, with the peaches and cream skin at 44 years old, was gone. Of course I cried, even though I knew her life was better and she finally had rest. Inside of me was this anger, this rage. The autopsy read she had an anuerism, bought on by stress. So now, we have to lay our sister to rest. The journey for the funeral was too long for my older parents, mom and dad to come out to the midwest. So we had two funerals, one in the midwest, and one in the sunshine state. Now, I kept thinking, I'm back home without my sister, and I seem so all alone, yet, I still have something of her........ |
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