Granny,
Even though I wasn’t ready for you to leave, I am relieved that you are without pain now. I will always treasure every thing that we did together, and how much fun we had. I will always remember how you would always, ever year, come up for Thanksgiving and how the day after we would make our yearly trip to Biscuitville. I will always remember you with your purple and green jacket on, carrying your purse with you consistently. I still have good memories of when you and I would go to the movies and how I would sit and watch you crochet scarves. I remember how much you loved to sing and how much you loved country music. I sure will miss calling you every weekend and discussing with you things about life and school. However, I am so grateful that I called you often and spent a lot of time with you so that now I don’t regret anything. Even though I will always mourn for you, I will always know in my heart that you are safe and not in pain. Even though now when I come to visit, and you won’t be there to greet me, I will know that you are watching over me. I love you so much, so much that I can’t even express how much. I absolutely hated seeing you in the hospital, depending on machines for life, and I realize that if you couldn’t be out of the hospital, being with God is the next best thing. I do not quite understand why he decided to take you from us right now, but I know that he must have some reason. I hope that you are now peaceful and without pain, because if you are happy, then I am happy too. I will always keep you alive in my heart by remembering how loving and compassionate you were to everyone around you. I will always keep and cherish the things I received from you, and will always remember you when I see them or use them. Whenever the bad memories come back of you in the hospital, I will change that memory to when you were sitting in your chair with your glasses on, crocheting something for someone. I think one of the best memories I will always remember about you is when I stayed at your house for a week and how we picked and ate raspberries with Granddaddy. Another one will be of when you and I would go to the Christmas convention at the coliseum and when you came to watch me sing there. Wit hall of these memories, you will never die out in my heart and there will always be a space reserved for you there that no one can replace. I am so glad that you can finally be an angel and be one alongside your father and sister. We’ll all be together someday, and until then, I’ll always keep you in my heart, knowing that you are not really dead and buried, but instead up in heaven reunited with your family to whom I know you missed dearly. So now we can all take comfort in the fact that we’ll all be reunited with you someday, and then there will be no crying or mourning. I love you so much Granny, and, as I have said, you always be there in my heart.
Love, Danielle##imported-begin##Danielle Kearns##imported-end##
