Goodbye

Today my Tia Reyna left. Here's a poem I wrote:

Goodbye

Sitting beside eachother,

Smiles and jokes

Trying to drown that lump in their throats.

It won't be long now before tears start to fly

It won't be long now before they say goodbye

While they sit there and wait

The remember a time

When they were both young still in their prime

The protection of the older

Unwilling to cry

The smiles of the other

When they didn't have to say goodbye

Now it is time

They hug and they kiss

They say "See you soon"

But they don't say farewell

For Christ binds sisters closer then life

And with Him as the end

They'll never have to say....

Goodbye

-Sarah Heidkerueger

My mom and her sisters didn't have it easy as kids. When they were preteens they were sent to Mexico to take care of their grandmother who was an irresponsible, bitter old woman. There were times when she would leave them for days with very little food. My Tia Reyna became their mother and had to care for them around the age of 13 in a strange country where they could barely speak let alone write or read a word in the language.
Thank God nothing bad happened to them while they were there. And because of that, they became very close and have remained close to this day. In fact, it was my Tia Reyna who lead my mom to the Lord. And because of her, eventually my mom's entire family became Christians.
It's always hard to say goodbye. Especially when your family. But with Heaven at the end of the road, we can have that assurance that no matter what, we'll see eachother again someday.
It's even like that with those of you one blogger whom I have never met in person before. We may never see eachother face to face in this world, but because we are sisters in the Lord, we can know that someday we will. That's definately something I'm looking forward to!