goodbye granny

With all the goodbyes I am realizing that I automatically categorize people into different groups like "I'll see you again" or "I will not see you for 3 years, but it won't be that much different than the last three years" or "I will not see you for a long time, but will think of you often" or the hardest category "I will not see you, and may not even talk to you perhaps ever (if the Lord should take you home)". My beloved grandma falls into this last category...I realized it on the phone the last time that we talked. With most of the other people, even the people that I don't think that I'll hear from over the next few years, there is still a chance that I'll get a call or maybe a Skype conversation, but with Grandma there is no foreseeable chance of that. She doesn't own a computer, nor does she want one. She doesn't expect to hear from us except by way of others who are talking to us. Her health is good right now, but statistically she is getting to the age where when things go down hill they usually do fairly quick. So it seems that whenever I call her to say good bye for the last time before we leave, it actually could be the last time that we talk until heaven!