Having a rough one this morning my forever "Pretty Lady". If there was a such thing as an "elevator to HEAVEN", I'd be crawling up into your lap (yes as an adult) just to hear you laugh aloud and say, "GIRL, when are you going to grow up from this"? And my response would always be the same every year on your birthday, "N-E-V-E-R" as you hugged me tighter. I know, "Get yourself together my Big Girl"! But Aunt Pearl, it's just not working today....

"Happy Heavenly Birthday Aunt Pearl"!

Dear Aunt Pearl:

It's been 11 years to the day since you left this world. I know you're in a better place... But, it still hurts just as if you left me yesterday. I know, I know, "Stop that crying little girl". But, when you left, I was already hurting.... Mommy never knew you left, and it was killing me inside that she was about too leave me soon also. I still miss the calls from the both of you in the morning during the big cooking holidays, "4:45 a.m. and 5:00 p.m.", asking me if I had that Turkey was in the oven yet, and did I do everything to make sure that my Turkey wouldn't turn out dry. "You are a Henderson woman, and we are superb cooking women in this family little girl". I would always laugh when you both continued to call me "little girl" even as an adult. Ooh, just to hear either of you call me on the phone and hear "hey little girl" one more time, just one more time today...

I'm going to try (really try) not to cry as much today. But, I will smile for one thing as I look outside on the porch of my brand new house... "You both have those wooden rocking chairs on the porch of as promised that would be there if I ever got another house again. Tell Mommy also,"the house is a replica of the one you raised your children in".❤ Anyway, see you both in my dreams.

Love you--Belinda.

(Forever Your Little Girl)

Happy Heavenly Birthday my dear Aunt Pearl. This year has been better for me, and only you know why--"Thank you for sending him to me". ❤

My Dearest Aunt Pearl:

Even though 8 years has gone by, time for me hasn't changed the ache I feel in my heart.... I still awaken on this day and every year since @ 2:38 a.m. with tears streaming down my face. But it's ok.... I know that you are up there in Heaven with Mommy and your other siblings having a good 'ole time. Aunt Pearl, I'll forever and always hold you in my heart. You were ooh so dear too me, and it comforts me to know that you did feel and see my love for you daily. You may have been my Aunt, but you treated me more like a daughter and told me so. You were my "Angel" that watched over me here on Earth, and now you're my "Heavenly Angel" up above. Lastly, when I've had those moments missing you and needing you so desparately, "I see, I so see" and feel that you heard my heart calling out to you in that moment"--LOVE YOU!

Belinda

Dear Aunt Pearl:

I am BETTER now. All worked out for our good this year. ALLĀH (Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala) has bestowed grace on us this 2020. I now you all are guiding, guarding, and protecting us-- I feel and see what's done around us.

Tell Moma, I said "thanks, again"...She knows what I mean.

HAPPY BIRTH ANNIVERSARY IN HEAVEN.

Wow, "You would have been 86 years old today". GOD knows how much I so terrible miss you.... Angel-Jr. and Jazelle still even talk of you. And I know "you still see me" as well.....

"HAPPY BIRTHDAY IN HEAVEN AUNT PEARL--LOVE YOU!

Your Baby,

Belinda

P.S. Your long awaited Birthday Gift will be put in place this year as promised.
❤️

Ooh Aunt Pearl.....

I am so missing you terribly today, and just like clockwork on every November 22 morning @ 2:38 a.m. I wake up, and the tears begin to flow as my heart breaks all over again. This Thanksgiving will also be the first Thanksgiving since you've been gone that I won't be cooking. The second job I took on mandatorily requires that I work. So today I will be in the mist of strangers and their families sharing memories and celebrating their love for one another over a pre-cooked meal prepared for them. As selfish as it sounds, and especially for me too say, "No Fair", but this is how I'm feeling right now. I'll get myself together before leaving for work, I promise you that--"My smile is my makeup", right. I'm missing Mommy too just as much, and not hearing the phone ring one behind the other as it did when you both were here, still hurts just as deep, and it hasn't gotten any better for every passing Thanksgiving and/or Christmas morning since. I know you nor Mommy wouldn't want me to be sad..... If it were anyway possible, I so wish I could run up to Heaven and either one of you just to get a hug..... But as I'm sure you both know why my heart is and has been exceptionally needing you right now. But I'll be your Big Girl and tr not too be sad. I'll give your other Big Girl Destiny a call today, she'll say something to make me literally laugh myself into an asthma attack that so reminds me how you and Mommy could do.

Love and Missing You Much,
        &
Your Baby--Belinda

P.S. I'll forever continue to make you proud of me, always.

It's still so very hard to go through life without you. When things happen, whether it be good, great, bad, and/or horrible "there's no more you to run too". Ooh how I'd just do about anything for just one more hug from you..... But GOD needed you more, and it's from HEAVEN now that you must look over me (and your other babies). I miss you so terribly Aunt Pearl, today, and forever more.

"Happy 84th Birthday in HEAVEN Aunt Pearl".

~Belinda~

(LOVE YOU, AND MORE THAN YOU EVER KNEW!)

Dear Aunt Pearl: I am doing my best. Doesn't matter to anyone else. ALLĀH (Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala) knows, and HE (SWT) sees all-- Tell Moma, I said "thanks"...She knows what I mean.

In Loving Memory of My Aunt Pearl.....

This poem is dedicated to a special someone who was more than just an Auntie too me,
to someone who looked after me as if I was her own child you see.

To someone who cared when nobody else did,
to someone who loved me as much as my own Mommy did.

To some whom they say I look like,
to someone who always wants to make things right.

To someone who treated me more than just a niece,
to someone who loved you with all her being and where I always found protection and peace.

To someone who I will forever hold dear within my heart,
and to someone who's love transcends time and distance even though eternity keeps us apart.

~Belinda~
(Love you.)

Aunt Pearl.....

I wish I could see you one more time
Come walking through the door
But I know that is impossible
I will hear your voice no more.

I know you can feel my tears
And you don’t want me to cry
Yet my heart is broken because I can’t understand why
someone so precious had to die.

I pray that God will give me strength
And somehow get me through
As I struggle with this heartache
That came when I lost you.

I LOVE YOU!

continually resting in the Lord til Our Saviour leads you into the pearly gates. Aunt Pearl, you were one of the most humble people I have ever met. I often meditate on people of your character, and your face always appears amongst the few.

"Happy 82nd Birthday Aunt Pearl"!

There's not a day that goes by that I wish I could go to that red door, and open it to yell "Aunt Pearl' and hear you respond with my name. But truth be told , I still do it without any shame. I know you're not there, because it's been 4 years since you've been gone. But I still listen, hoping, and praying that all of this is still a bad dream, and you'd respond. Well to make myself laugh [because I know you're shaking your head and laughing at me too], I yell at the top of my lungs anyway "A-U-N-T P-E-A-R-L", and go running up those green shaggy steps. For a split second, I'm in a moment in time as I turn the corner at the top of the stairs, thinking I'm about too get one of your "make-it-all-better-hugs" as you're sitting in your favorite big comfy grey rocking chair. As I am still in that mind-set, my heart is racing in that moment in time, I could almost hear you say with a chuckle and a smile, "Gurl, why you got too be so loud, I know you love me, and so does the whole wide world"! But then my heart breaks all over again, and reality hits. Your favorite big comfy grey rocking chair is still there, but your not sitting in it. The tears start all over again as they do every time. But, I sigh with half a smile, because I know your smiling down at me. But not because I'm sad, but because you can still see how much I still love and miss you so much, as I reminisce of you hugging me tight, while I sit in the quietness of your loving home in your favorite big comfy grey rocking chair. <3

"I miss you so much Aunt Pearl"--Love you forever and always, until the end of time.

Meet You At The Gate"
{In Memory of Aunt Pearl--11/22/12}

"A beautiful garden now stands alone,
missing the one who nurtured it
But now she is gone,
Her flowers still bloom, and the sun it still shines,
But the rain is like tear drops, for the ones left behind,
The weeds lay waiting to take the gardens beauty away,
But the beautiful memories of its keeper are in our hearts to stay,
she loved every flower even some that were weeds,
So much love she would plant with each little seed,
But just like her flowers she was part of Gods plan,
So when it was her time he reached down his hand,
He look through the Garden searching for the best,
That's when he found my Aunt Pearl, it was her time to rest,
It was hard for those who loved her, to just let her go,
But God had a spot in his garden, that needed a gentle soul,
So when you start missing Aunt Pearl, remember if you just wait,
When God has a spot in his garden, She'll meet you at the gate....

Another precious memory of your birthday has came and went.
But the tears continue to well in my eyes,
and the heartache of you not being hear continues too not circumvent.
Mother's Day is fast approaching,
and I hate that I can't bring you flowers anymore.
So, I'll just get them anyway and place them within our house by the door.
I do feel you around me, especially when I've needed you most.
This is what has given me peace these past three years, and kept my spirits up and my mind whole.
Life's special events will repeatedly happen, and my heart will always continue too break because you won't be there.
But I know you'll be looking down from HEAVEN, and with that notion my heart will be content".

"Oh Aunt Pearl how I miss you so".......

"Belinda

Happy Birthday my dear, sweet Aunt Pearl".I so wished, I could have gotten one of your hugs today. Then the funniest thing happen. A teacher out of no where this morning, walked up to me and said," Good morning, here's a hug for you". Thank you, my "Angel" in Heaven, thank you.

Forever and always in my heart--I LOVE YOU!

Belinda

"Forever free, Aunt Pearl"...Alhumdulillah! Masha'Allah. I finished what I started. It's DONE.-- Yours & Ralph's Dedication is in the manuscript too. Say, "hey" to Ralph, Daddy, Aunt Gloria, Aunt Eva, Aunt Ethel, Uncle June & Uncle Andrew. One last thing, Mrs. Robinson is there too. Let her know "It Is Finished!" and, thank you for me. Gotta go now. Moving forward, remember?-- I will cook no matter what & "By Any Means Necessary!" (our joke).

Be Good...Keep Dancing!-- I AM. Love You Eternally, Berdine ♥

You are missed so very much by so many. The Holidays are so difficult without you.

To my Angel in Heaven. . . 
This memorial was made for all too see how much you were loved, and most definitely treasured by me. Whenever I need too feel "everything is going to be alright", I'll have this memorial to view and find comfort in the memories and wisdom that you left behind.

R.i.P your spirit will always be here with us....