A letter to heaven

Dear Heaven, To Mary,
Tonight I was looking at old blog posts about choir and singing and I found a post about the last song you started to teach me. You had listened to me sing and stopped playing the piano to look back at me in awe, your jaw slightly dropped as you told me how my voiced had matured in the years that had past as I was away in collage. I had never received a better compliment. You are my Hero! so having you tell me that there was nothing more you could teach me and that I had surprised you how great I had became was the biggest honor. I would trade every other compliment I had ever had been given on my singing just to hear you compliment me one more time haha heck I would give them all up to hear you couch me in breathing and standing just one more time. I was in shock when you left for Home. You were like a 2nd mom to me.  Thank you so much for all you taught me. You taught me to be confident and never give up along with giving me the gift of my voice. So tonight I am challenging my self, I am going to learn that last song we were  working on and I am going to sing it! even if its just in a video for this blog I am going to do it! I love you Mary!

For those of you that do not know, Mary was my Vocal teacher she taught me for several years and was my role model. I still remember the day she told me she would teach me " I wont be teaching you no hiphop, rock or country. If you are going to be my student you will be taught classical such as Broadway or opera." And so I learned Opera. and I loved every moment of it! We had fun singing funny songs and she taught me everything she knew and when Money became tight for me and my family she would not let me stop coming to lessons and started teaching me for free stating that I was on scholarship. I remember when I told her a Juilliard talent scout had spoke to me and I had to turn him down on his offer due to money. She sang out and Hugged me not caring that I did not go but that I had the offer. When she Passed away I bawled I had never cried so hard about some one passing before. Some of the last words she spoke to me was " Rebekah your voice has came farther than I ever expected, there is nothing more that I can teach you" Of course there was more we had spoke about after that she got to meet my little Malaki and hold him and I sung in her last concert she ever conducted and she kissed my forehead thanking me for the christmas gift I gave her. But the words that I remember most are those. She will always be in my heart every time I sing.