Lonnie Ray Harris February15, 1940 - December 19, 2007 Daddy I guess you are spending Christmas this year with Micheal, Mam-aw, Pap-aw and Jesus this year. I was not ready to let you go, I hope you know that......I had no idea you would not be with US this Christmas! In years past I have always wondered if you would be with us for Christmas BUT NOT THIS YEAR! I have no idea why, why didn't I question this year and now you are gone! Why couldn't I talk to you ONE more time, why couldn't I tell you how much I loved you and needed you HERE! I miss you so much, you were a rock to me, you kept me grounded when life started spinning out of control, I could always call my Daddy! You were my biggest fan, you loved me even if I screwed up, which I did often ...... hey I was born a "Harris"  Please enjoy your time with everybody in Heaven and be there to greet me when God says I too can come home. Watch over my girls and the grandbabies and PLEASE ask God NOT to take them from me!! Mom misses you, I worry about her......she is not as strong as she used to be. I don't know what to do about the distance between us, I have already tried to get her to move here but she says no. Please ask God to watch over her and protect her, I can't stand to lose her too right now! I try to pray but there only seems to be questions and no answers. I know you were tired, you were tired of hurting, but you were so strong. You, shocked everyone by leaving this way! But I guess I know in my heart somewhere that you are happy now, it just doesn't seem to register in my mind. You will be missed so much, but I know you are in a much better place now. You never liked for me to cry and I am sorry but I have to cry and yes I feel sorry for myself, my girls and my grandbabies......you made EVERYONE feel so special! Mom says God took you the 'sneaky way'.....you were there talking to her when she left for work and then you just went to sleep. I am so grateful to God for one thing..........you didn't suffer! I love you Daddy and will always hold you in my heart. God knows there is this HUGE whole in my life now, that I have no idea what to do with, no one can fill it and I don't want anyone to EVER try, it is the place that you filled, it is the calls I can longer make when I need my Daddy to talk to! It is knowing that you will never hug me again or tell me that you love me. It is knowing you will never cross my threshold into my home again, and never sit across the table from me at lunch! I am actually (for the first time in my life) looking forward to the end of this world. I used to wonder why the older people would say there were 'ready to just go home' and want God to allow them to do so, I understand that feeling now......I want to 'come home' too. I now I can't just now there are things and people here I must attend too, but I actually look forward to then end of 'this world' so that I can be reunited with the ones who have gone on before me, so enjoy your time and save me a place! I love you, 'Chelle | 
