Healing doesn’t always happen here on earth.

I am the person I am today because of you.

Regardless of how your life has worked out, one thing is certain, everyone has had one person who has made an impact in their lives. Whether that impact was positive or negative.

My life was changed well before 2021. The change started with a wonderful woman named Geneva Pearl Lawton. The aunt that everyone wishes they had and the aunt I strive to be every single day to my nieces and nephews. She took in a broken teenager and showed her all that she can become and more.

Let me give you a little background into our history……

When I was 12, she decided to take me in to live with her and her two children. Who I now call my brother and sister. I was becoming a teenager who had not only trauma but also teenage hormones. So needless to say, I was not the most pleasant person to live with.

Through those difficult years of therapy and mental breakdowns she never gave up on me. Before her, every adult in my life had given up and decided I was a lost cause and wouldn’t really go far in life. She was always my number one cheerleader (Even when what I wanted to do didn’t make sense). She could have given up on me like everyone else but she didn’t. She did all this while battling breast cancer.

Fast forward to 2021……

On July 24, 2021, After a 21-year battle with Breast Cancer my angel, my cheerleader took her last breath on earth. I have never met anyone who loved as hard as she did. This woman taught me how to really love people for who they truly are. She loved everyone with a fiery passion and touched so many lives.

I always knew she was a special person but the number of people that have shown their respect in these last few days has shown how many lives she impacted. She helped everyone who came in her path and gave even when it was her last. I am a strong educated woman today because of her. I thank God all the time for placing that woman in my life.

She may have been my aunt but she was also my mother and on July 24th my heart broke. I am happy she is no longer in pain but I will forever miss her. She was the glue in our family. She helped every single person in the family no matter what. If they needed something she found a way to help them. She was like that with everyone including helping her children’s friends when they needed.

I pray to be just as strong as her one day. When I become a mother, I will know how to be a mother because of her. I hope I am doing a good job as an aunt so I can be the aunt she was to me to my babies. She fulfilled her calling here on earth and she did it well.

Final Thoughts

Death doesn’t mean that the battle has been lost. Healing doesn’t always happen here on earth. I am reminded how strong of a soldier she was and fought hard and now she can rest. Anyone who has lost family members to cancer please know that they are resting and that they won because they fought. They are now living in their new body with no pain and they love you and are proud of you. People may leave their earthy bodies but they are never really gone.