Happy Heavenly Birthday

Some people are part of our lives before we ever get the chance to meet them. In this voicemail, a grandchild calls the grandparent who died before they were born, to wish them a happy birthday.

She never met her grandparent, but she lives her life through them every day. Her father still misses his parent. Everyone says she resembles her grandparent, and she takes it as a compliment, however bittersweet it feels.

On the hard days, when there is no mother to cry out for, she wishes she could cry out for her grandparent instead. So she talks to them this way, and tells them she loves them more than life, forever and a day.