09/11/2023
Thirteen years ago heaven gained an Angel, my best friend Lisa Crossman. We’d been friends since we were 19. She had lots of friends who also called her their best friend and who had the pleasure of knowing her even longer. She was the kind of person that made everyone smile and feel important. To know her was to love her! Lisa was my person! She was the person I called first to tell about something exciting happening in my life, and the person I called first when something awful was going on in my life. She listened, she prayed, and we laughed, ( a lot!). I’ve missed her so much all these years, as so many other friends and family members have also missed her.
This picture is of us celebrating her 50th birthday 3 years before she passed. We used to meet at a coffee shop or restaurant or shopping center somewhere.
Just a couple of weeks before she went to be with Jesus I got a call from her and I can still her her voice saying “Hey, it’s your girlfriend. I’m driving home from my last radiation treatment and I’ll be coming right past you. Let’s meet for lunch”. We had a 4 hour lunch and I thank God for that time together!!!
The last time I saw her was the night before she passed. A bunch of us had gathered at her home and I got to spend a little bit of time with her. I wanted to say something funny like “when you hear I’m coming to heaven, meet me at Starbucks”. But instead I said, “When you stand before God he’s going to say ‘Well done good and faithful servant’! She told me she hoped so. I assured her that He would. I am confident that it went down exactly like that! I can’t tell you how many times I’ve thought of her and wished I could share something important with her!
None of us know how many days we have on this earth, so I want to encourage you to make sure to love your family and friends with all your heart. Don’t waste any time while you’re here to live and love BIG! If I have called you “girlfriend”, know that I don’t bestow that title lightly. Not that I am special, but that you are special to me. To my husband, son, daughters, DIL and grandson, and extended family, I love you fiercely! Lisa, until we meet again girlfriend, I miss you!
