visitor's stories(was Grief & Loss)

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Since we're sharing vistor's stories,

here is mine.

 

My father died at the age of 84 of bladder

cancer that had spread to his liver.

His last few weeks were marked by utter

exhaustion. When I tried to " tune in " to him

after he passed I got this distinct sense that

he was just resting. I am not particularly

psychic.

 

A few months later I was not thinking about

him at all. We were in the car on the way

to our daughter's. All of a sudden I had a

strong sense of his presence, and this name

appeared in my mind, that was utterly meaningless

to anyone outside my family of origin.

 

It was a family joke.

When my Dad was a child he had played a messenger

in a silly operetta, where he had to speak just one line:

" Henry de Laguardere, he is not dead, he lives! "

 

We used to say: Henri de Laguardere! When

something or somebody that we had given up on

was still a going concern.

So suddenly feeling that word in my mind was

kind of an identification and a message in one.

 

The feeling was one of surprise. Dad had not

been a church or synagogue visitor and labeled

himself a humanist.

Just in my mind I said:

" Hey Dad, you're awake, cool! Why not go visit

Mom? "

 

That was it. I am not a medium or anything like

that. The contact faded.

Well, the next time I called Mom she said.

" I have to tell you something really weird.

I hope I am not going crazy. But I saw Dad

standing in a corner in the living room " .

 

So I told her my experience. Mom had seen

her closest sister too after she died.

It is quite normal for loved ones to make a

final visit, but we should not try to hold

them to this dimension.

 

Ien in the Kootenays

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