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verbina
True Blue Farmgirl
231 Posts
randi
n.j
USA
231 Posts |
 Posted - Jul 29 2005 : 6:30:00 PM
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Lena@HickoryGroveFarm
Farmgirl in Training
33 Posts
Marlena
Brunson
SC
USA
33 Posts |
Posted - Jul 30 2005 : 10:57:04 AM
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Apparently they believe in me, because I've seen quite a few in my day. We have a "gentleman" living at the old farm house, which in the South is sort of to be expected. Cheers!
Lena
Budding Farm Girl and member of the Sisterhood of the Traveling Art
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bramble
True Blue Farmgirl
2044 Posts
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Posted - Jul 30 2005 : 6:21:11 PM
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Let me start by saying that until I experienced these things I NEVER believed other people's "ghost stories". I always thought they were the product of over active imaginations and overly superstitious people. I almost never tell anyone about this because I know what I used to think when people shared these remarkable stories.
We used to live in a 214 year old house and from the first time I walked in the door I felt as if I belonged there, that I was most welcome. Through the years we had unexplainable events that we found amusing. We would go to bed and turn off all lights along the way and I would forget to take some medicine and have to go back downstairs. All the lights and tv w/o sound would be on. Other times I would come down in the morning and all the kitchen cabinets would be wide open at a 90% angle( no the house wasn't settling!) Other times I would find a junk drawer or the broom closet which was always messy wide open as if to say "This needs attention miss!" We would also go up to bed and as we were reading before sleep we would hear the closet latch next to the fireplace open and close more than once . We used to joke that they were making a late night of it! My sewing machine used to sit on the end of our kitchen table and one day we were in the living room with a neighbor and the sewing machine started sewing in a very herky jerky fashion as if it wasn't used to an electric foot pedal. I said "Please stop sewing..." and it stopped. The neighbor turned white and said as she backed out of the door "I always heard you had one but never knew for sure until NOW!" When my son was born he was a wiggler and we were always trying to swaddle him to no avail. He would quick off those covers faster than you could retuck him. One morning I said to my husband "that was a good idea you had tucking the covers under the matress so Z couldn't kick them off.". He looked at me and said "I didn't do that". We never felt anything but love from whoever this soul was, and we returned it because they obviously loved this house as much as we did. When we left the last thing I did was say out loud "Thank you for sharing your house with us, we will miss it ...and you.Be at peace". I hope they are.
After we moved here and Z was about three we would hear him have these very interesting conversations complete with belly laughs ansd he would say things like 'Old Pop you funny!" We had no idea what he was doing but he was happy so we figured that it couldn't be bad. One day he saw a picture of my husband's grandfather( who built this house , lived here for 50 years,adored my husband but died while I was pregnant). He said " That's Old Pop, he says I just the right boy!" and went off to play. We were floored because that was something he had always said to my husband. They would play this game: "Pop Pop , I'm just the right boy for...?"and his grandfather would answer "Well, I think you are just the right boy for (fishing, a paper airplane, an ice cream cone ...) it was a fill in the blank every time he saw him when he was small. It made sense that Z called his great grandfather "Old Pop" because he called my father in law Poppy. Love is a powerful thing and I have no explaination other than that it must not end. Kind of nice to know if you think about it.
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Clare
True Blue Farmgirl
2173 Posts
NC WA State
USA
2173 Posts |
Posted - Jul 30 2005 : 6:48:47 PM
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Wonderful, touching stories, ladies. Yes, I believe. I prefer the term Spirits to ghosts; however.
I have a personal experience with my daughter and my father after he had passed that is totally remarkable. For her sake, I'll keep it private, but needless to say to this day we refer to it as a huge event in our lives. It was a turning point for her in her early teen years. And, when her son was born last year, knowing he would be named after my father, the new baby boy also stubbornignly waited until my father's birth day to arrive. I know it was not a coincidence.
I have no doubt my father is still in my life. Very unexplainable things happen on occasion, and I just know he has had a hand in it. I feel closest during a full moon, but he is always available to talk to. Love does not die.
**** Love is the great work - though every heart is first an apprentice. - Hafiz
Set a high value on spontaneous kindness. - Samuel Johnson****
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mollymae
True Blue Farmgirl
694 Posts
Molly
Visalia
California
USA
694 Posts |
Posted - Jul 30 2005 : 6:49:57 PM
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Bramble, thanks for sharing these stories, I just love hearing sweet ones like this! I believe that love does not end either...
Cead Mile Failte,
Molly
"If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain. If I can ease one life the Aching or cool one pain, or help one fainting robin unto his nest again, I shall not live in vain" ~Emily Dickinson
**When life throws scraps your way ~ Make a Quilt!**
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ThymeForEweFarm
True Blue Farmgirl
705 Posts
Robin
An organic farm in the forest in
Maine
USA
705 Posts |
Posted - Jul 30 2005 : 7:05:22 PM
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There aren't any in this house, but our 1881 farm house in town has at least two young boys living there. I thought I was seeing things until my oldest daughter saw them at the same. She said something like, "Those kids aren't alive, are they, Mom?" She'd also seen them many times. They played outside often. We never saw them in the house. My mother thought the house I grew up in had the spirit (I do like that word better, Clare) of a woman from the 1800's, judging by her clothing.
Robin
Thyme For Ewe Farm
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MeadowLark
True Blue Farmgirl
2206 Posts
USA
2206 Posts |
Posted - Jul 30 2005 : 8:44:15 PM
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I have a 35 m pic of a spirt image taken in Spring 1984 at a Victorian Hotel. A young woman in a Victorian Travel costume and hat with feathers and holding a fur muff...She looked to be around 17. The hotel had been used as a hospital/spa solarium in the late 1800's. I told the staff of this hotel the account of my experience with the spirit of this young girl on a return visit in 1998...they freaked and said many sightings and encounters with a spirit as I described happened in the room where I stayed with my husband, and took the photo. This young girl was lonely...and scared and not excepting of her young life being cut short. I have never felt that way about an encounter with an unseen spirit...It was a feeling that I cannot describe...just that there are many things we cannot see or comprehend except with our hearts.
The flowers flee from Autumn, but not you-
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jpbluesky
True Blue Farmgirl
6066 Posts
Jeannie
Florida
USA
6066 Posts |
Posted - Jul 31 2005 : 08:49:03 AM
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I, too, believe, and have heard too many stories, from trusted friends who are down-to-earth (no pun intended), not to believe.
I have had slightly scary visits and wonderful visits, too, in my life. In the scary visit, I lived in a house (here in the city I live in now) that was on the last high hill before the land becomes flat on it's way to the Gulf. You could see for miles from the back of that house, even see the St. Marks lighthouse on a clear day. Indians had camped on the hill there long ago, according to historical knowledge of our area.
My kitchen cabinet doors would be found open, too, and my radio would be turned on low before radios had auto off/on buttons. I had a 'sensitive" friend who felt an Indian woman in that house whom she said was very jealous in nature. After she told me that, within a half hour, her child was stung repeatedly by wasps on the old swing set in the back yard. She quickly left and did not come visit me again. I went through a divorce in that house, and many tears were shed there. It still it gives me a bad feeling to pass by it. Whoever was there did not like me much.
I have another close girlfriend who lived in an old house in Quincy, Florida. Her "spirit friend" must have been afraid of fire. When my friend put a folded quilt over the defunct radiator, she came back into the room to find it neatly folded on the chair next to the radiator. My friend was trying to hide the old radiator, and decorate, since it was a B&B, so she had also placed a dried flower basket on top of the quilt, which was also found neatly sitting on the floor. Whenever she would put candles in the dining room sconces, she would later find them lying neatly on the table. For awhile, she thought she was getting forgetful!!! So she sat down one afternoon and talked to the spirit and assured her that she would be careful not to start a fire, and that she wanted the old house to be saved, too. The strange things stopped. But the spirit would still ring the servant's buzzer under the dining room table in the middle of the night. :)
I could go on and on, about my dad and my mom when they passed, and my daughter's sighting when we moved into this house. I will save those stories for later and give someone else a turn.
jpbluesky
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verbina
True Blue Farmgirl
231 Posts
randi
n.j
USA
231 Posts |
Posted - Jul 31 2005 : 09:15:03 AM
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| hi friends, i have a 15 year old cabin on old untouched land.i know things are here but i also have 11 house cats. i know there are things i cant explan and cats cant take all the blame so as long as they dont scare me im ok. hey TAWANDA is from fried green tomatoes right?? RANDI IM NOT STILL IN TRAINING AM I?? |
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jpbluesky
True Blue Farmgirl
6066 Posts
Jeannie
Florida
USA
6066 Posts |
Posted - Jul 31 2005 : 2:37:18 PM
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What are you talking about Verbina? In training for what?
jpbluesky
Heartland girl |
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Clare
True Blue Farmgirl
2173 Posts
NC WA State
USA
2173 Posts |
Posted - Jul 31 2005 : 3:09:12 PM
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I think Randi means Farmgirl in Training... and yes, I believe that turns over to another "title" at 50 or 100 posts.
Keep postin' Randi!
**** Love is the great work - though every heart is first an apprentice. - Hafiz
Set a high value on spontaneous kindness. - Samuel Johnson****
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verbina
True Blue Farmgirl
231 Posts
randi
n.j
USA
231 Posts |
Posted - Jul 31 2005 : 4:04:25 PM
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| hey jb. just wondering .i always see it by my name so i ask? im not in training for anything. |
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verbina
True Blue Farmgirl
231 Posts
randi
n.j
USA
231 Posts |
Posted - Jul 31 2005 : 4:07:09 PM
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| oh by the way clare thank you for that.randi |
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Kathigene
True Blue Farmgirl
160 Posts
Kathy
New York
160 Posts |
Posted - Jul 31 2005 : 4:26:12 PM
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The comment in my family has always been that we are Irish and therefore sensitive. I know my oldest sister, my mother and myself would hear or sense things that were not seen or heard by others.
At one time Mom and I were looking at a house for sale. She had her license and it was just the two of us. We had looked at the whole house and had only to go down a wide hallway and open a door and look at a partial attic. We stood there and talked about the house and I knew that day that nothing on earth could make me walk down that hallway and open that door. Nothing was said and we eventually decided we had seen enough and left.
The house wasn't what we wanted but it did have Location so we went back the next day and we went down that hallway and opened that door to a fine ordinary partial attic with a window. Nothing creepy at all. We did not make an offer and months later we were talking about creepy feelings in houses etc and didn't she mention that house and without us ever having said anything to each other I found out that the first day in that house, she was just as frozen as I was and did not want to walk down the hallway and open that door.
I don't know what happened that changed from one day to the next but I thought it was pretty interesting that we had both had the same feeling at the same time in the same place!
There now I've scared myself!!
Kathy in New York (not the city)
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jpbluesky
True Blue Farmgirl
6066 Posts
Jeannie
Florida
USA
6066 Posts |
Posted - Jul 31 2005 : 6:08:16 PM
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Now I understand Verbina! I always look at the number of posts, too, and have often wondered in the past when they would change from one title to the next. Now I think I am true blue forever, which is great with me! I do not mind being true blue, and I liked being in training too! :)
The day my mom died, I was 1600 miles away from her. My sister called to tell me she had passed, and I went into the bathroom to shower and get dressed. I could feel my mom's presence so strong there with me. I felt like she wanted me to sit down and talk with her. But I didn't!!! I kept getting ready, and talking to her while I looked in the mirror. Just like when I was a teen-ager and would get ready and half listen to her talk to me. Now, I feel bad that I did not stop, go sit down, and talk to her spirit. She was telling me that the things I felt guilty about in the past were alright, and that she loved me. And I was saying, I love you, too. But I did not stop and focus. My mind was in shock, I think. It was all so strange. But I do wish, even in that last moment, that I would have made more time for her. Her spirit was definitely with me in that bathroom.
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bramble
True Blue Farmgirl
2044 Posts
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Posted - Jul 31 2005 : 7:06:25 PM
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Jeannie, Your Mom is still with you and in those moments she knew and understood. She came for you and you can't feel guilty about that. I think in a person's last hours, minutes of life things must become very clear to them and all the old hurts, grievances no longer matter. I think that the love they are moving toward is so pure that they finally see and or understand what all of this time here on earth was about. If they reach out it's to tell us it's alright, they understand and that they love us before they travel on. We all grieve and mourn in different ways and your shock was understood I am sure.
Remember, she loved you and that's all that really matters.
I miss my Mom everyday and she's been gone since 1984. There are times I feel her with me in the sense that I will respond to something the same way she would have. I don't even have to ask myself what would Mom have done because I know it's her guiding me
like she would if she was still here .Sometimes I'm not even conscious of it but in hindsight I will always find her shining through.
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jpbluesky
True Blue Farmgirl
6066 Posts
Jeannie
Florida
USA
6066 Posts |
Posted - Jul 31 2005 : 8:13:56 PM
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Bramble, I have not even shared that story with my family!!! Thank you for your response. It really made me feel better and comforted. You are always so understanding in your posts.
Your comment about the love toward which we move when we pass is a wonderful thought. The peace that passes all understanding....that kind of love would wipe out all the hurts we inflict on one another unknowingly.
My sister and I have a pact that whoever dies first will somehow get a message to the other. But we cannot decide on what the message should be. She had a friend who did that with her sister. They both loved yellow roses, so they decided that the one who died first would send the other a yellow rose somehow. Last spring one of the sisters died, and three days later the door bell rang at the house of the surviving sister. The florist delivered a yellow rose bouquet...they were from a long lost friend from high school, who had heard about her sister's death. The old friend had not known about the pact. I know these women, and met them last Thanksgiving when I was home in Illinois, so I know this is not a story from some email thing, even though it sounds that way!
Anyway, thank you Bramble!
jpbluesky
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Aunt Jenny
True Blue Farmgirl
11381 Posts
Jenny
middle of
Utah
USA
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Posted - Jul 31 2005 : 8:23:11 PM
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I have never personally had an experience like that...although I did have an experience where I had been so sad all day about a year after my beloved grandma died (over 10 years ago) and had been thinking about her all day...I went outside and all the flowers seemed twice as bright and there was a gentle breeze and I felt calm all over...I felt like she was there..or her love anyway. She is the one who taught me all I know about gardening and the love of flowers and herbs. (and everything else I love as a matter of fact)
My mom had an experience that she told me about more than once, that after I was born (I am her oldest child) and she had her first night home from the hospital she was holding me and sitting on her bed and at the foot of her bed was her grandma (my wonderful grandma's mother...who was totally just as special to my mom and had died several months before) and she just nodded like she approved and then dissapeared. My mom had been wishing that her grandma could just see her new baby once. My great grandma had had 12 children of her own (my grandma was the oldest) and she loved babies. I feel like sometimes a love is so strong that they are nearby.
Jenny in Utah
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Clare
True Blue Farmgirl
2173 Posts
NC WA State
USA
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Posted - Jul 31 2005 : 9:54:37 PM
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JP, my daughter and I have the same pact. Good that you pointed out that we need to determine how/what that contact will be. I'll get to work on that part!
Aunt Jenny, Your mother's experience was eerily close to my daughter's experience that I spoke of earlier. Once you get over the scariness of the concept it is a huge comfort.
I am so glad to know others of you have experienced these same things and know them as valid. In my life I have only told maybe 3 people of these experiences, and even those were sceptical. Just goes to show that FARMGIRLS are well-rounded, experienced, compassionate and aware GODDESSES!!!!! I think being in close touch with nature is the pre-requisite to this awareness in our lives.
XXX Thanks girls. It is a huge comfort that you pass along in sharing.
**** Love is the great work - though every heart is first an apprentice. - Hafiz
Set a high value on spontaneous kindness. - Samuel Johnson****
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verbina
True Blue Farmgirl
231 Posts
randi
n.j
USA
231 Posts |
Posted - Aug 01 2005 : 07:50:08 AM
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| my mom was real sick. i was not with her when she passed but my gram was. we became very close after she found out how sick she was.,so we had some good important time. shame it took so long. i found something really deep for her stone so that is whats on there now . remember me is all i ask and if remembrance be a task, forget me. cool huh? randi |
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sqrl
True Blue Farmgirl
605 Posts
Melissa
Northern California
USA
605 Posts |
Posted - Aug 01 2005 : 09:29:32 AM
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Ever since I was a little girl I could feel them. I have such a strong sense for the spirit world. It's not easy, it can feel pretty scarey at times. When my dad lived in big, relatively new house up on a hill, I could feel something so strong. I could not sleep there by myself, I could sleep there if I had a friend with me but if I was by myself my Dad would always wake up my find my sleeping on the floor in his room ( he had this teddy bear that layed on the floor, it was about 6 feet long and very comfortable). Some places I feel them a whole lot more than other places. I grew up in PA around the Philadelphia area and anyone who knows that area it is haunted everywhere, house houses, halls, woods. Some places it's so strong I could cring. But it was in France where I just said "I can't sleep here". I had been traveling all over France with my Sister-in-law ans her husband and baby ( I was their Nany was until the baby was about 9 months). At the various Inns and B&Bs I always had my own room which worked just fine until we got to this one town. It was a sleepy town, almost nothing was open for it was a Sunday evening. They're room was upstairs and my room was all the way down stairs past through the basement and out side into a converted stable. Now this an old house the basement stairs were rubbed away in the middle for hundreds of years of going up and down. I got into my room in the evening and took a shower came out and settled down for bed and I stopped and felt it, it was so strong. I thought "no you can do this, it's just your imagination, your just afraid of the dark" I to mention I really didn't want to look like a coward. After about 15 minutes I said forget it and ran upstairs knocked on their door and slept in their room that night thank goddess they had an extra bed. Well we wake up the next morning and I wasn't alone in what I felt. Melanie (sister-in-law)decided we were leaving that day. The place had a such a wierd vibe we all felt it even when I went for a walk out in the gardens with the baby, he felt it. Life works it strange ways because we had left a day before we planned to but the hotel only had us registered for that one night. Someone changed our plans for us. I could feel it a lot in Fance, sometimes I think the older the place the more I feel it, which is what is strange about my dad's old house but who knows what was there before the house. Well enough of this or I won't want to be alone at the office.
Blessed Be
www.sqrlbee.com/artisan
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mollymae
True Blue Farmgirl
694 Posts
Molly
Visalia
California
USA
694 Posts |
Posted - Aug 01 2005 : 12:40:56 PM
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We live in an older home (built in the 1930's, which we are renting, and I've felt strange things here a couple of times, my oldest son has even seen what he said looked like a "shadow ghost" in the upstairs hallway, and he does not make things up like that. Like Melissa, I've been sensitive to things like that as well since I was a little girl. I've never actually seen a full-blown spirit (or ghost), but I have sensed them everywhere.
Cead Mile Failte,
Molly
"If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain. If I can ease one life the Aching or cool one pain, or help one fainting robin unto his nest again, I shall not live in vain" ~Emily Dickinson
**When life throws scraps your way ~ Make a Quilt!**
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sqrl
True Blue Farmgirl
605 Posts
Melissa
Northern California
USA
605 Posts |
Posted - Aug 01 2005 : 12:57:53 PM
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Right, I haven't seen one either though I don't have to to know their there. Maybe because I used to say when I when I went down stairs at night by myself "I don't want to see you, don't show yourself to me". I was so scared.
Blessed Be
www.sqrlbee.com/artisan
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mollymae
True Blue Farmgirl
694 Posts
Molly
Visalia
California
USA
694 Posts |
Posted - Aug 01 2005 : 1:11:28 PM
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Exactly!! ROFL part of me wants to actually "see" one, but then I don't know what I'd do if I actually did!!! Even reading all of these stories freaks me out! (But I love reading them!)
Cead Mile Failte,
Molly
"If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain. If I can ease one life the Aching or cool one pain, or help one fainting robin unto his nest again, I shall not live in vain" ~Emily Dickinson
**When life throws scraps your way ~ Make a Quilt!**
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JoyIowa
True Blue Farmgirl
273 Posts
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Posted - Aug 01 2005 : 1:24:35 PM
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Over the years I have had many experiences which I now understand as contact with spirits. The night my dad died, I was at a conference. We had stayed up until nearly 2 AM. I went right to sleep and for whatever reason woke up at 2:20. I can't explain it, but I felt my dad say "Goodbye Toost! Be Good!" I sat straight up in bed, felt a calm come over me. I remember thinking to myself "Well at least I won't have to stay at this dumb conference." Sure enough the next morning I had an emergency message to contact my boss immediately. I called home instead. After I had flown home, my siblings and I were talking and I mentioned it. It turned out each of us had been visited between 2:20 and 2:30 including my mom. Each of us remember feeling him say goodbye using our private pet names. He was pronounced dead at 2:32 AM. I dreaded going to the funeral home and avoided going in for a long time. My cousin came out and told me he looked good. I thought yeah, right! When I finally mustered up the courage, I found his face to be totally stress free and again a strange calm came over me. Hmmm! Maybe we mere mortals really don't understand the world.
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sqrl
True Blue Farmgirl
605 Posts
Melissa
Northern California
USA
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Posted - Aug 03 2005 : 09:14:27 AM
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I agree Joy, I don't think we understand the world.I'm a fantastical creature by nature and I just can't believe that we see everything in this world. I believe there are many things (call them what you like) that we cannot see all around us.
Blessed Be
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