*If Heaven Wasn't So Far Away*

Today I spent two hours of my day driving.  Which, with my job is nothing out of the norm.  But today I spent the day thinking about the ones I love and no longer have here with me.  I think about Heaven and how thankful I am that I believe that I am not forever without those that go before me.  I'd give anything to swap a day of my youth when I thought my Yia-Yia was just a crazy old lady to have her for one day to have an adult conversation with her.  I would love to meet my Grandma Lockerd, who died when my mom was just 24.  She wrote letters to the family during her radiation and chemo which I've read...they only make me realize how much I missed out on not knowing her.  I am pretty sure my mom is a good replica.  And my dad's dad who died when my dad was 14....I don't know much about him other than he was a soldier in WWII and has two purple hearts.  And he wrote my Yia-Yia love letters from the war.  Knowing that someday I will be reunited with them warms my heart.  

"I wish heaven had a phone so I could hear your voice again. I thought of you today, but that is nothing new. I thought about you yesterday, and days before that too. I think of you in silence, I often speak your name. All I have are memories and a picture in a frame. Your memory is a keepsake, from which I'll never part. God has you in his arms. I have you in my heart. " - unknown

 If Heaven Wasn't So Far Away - Justin Moore