A The Risk Of Sounding Like I'm Crazy...

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A The Risk Of Sounding Like I'm Crazy...
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Sun, 12-21-2003 - 12:24am

I'm wondering if any of you have a close connection with a family member/friend to the point where you sense when things are not right?

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Sun, 12-21-2003 - 7:16am

I've never gone through anything like this but I absolutely do believe in this kind of thing.

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Sun, 12-21-2003 - 7:53am
I, too, believe. While I was in Roanoke this week, my aunt kept saying that my grandmother chose this time to go Home because she knew we were all upset about not being together this Christmas. This was her gift to us. We could feel her there.

Hang onto those family members and friends!

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Sun, 12-21-2003 - 8:57am
I believe your experiences are happening for a reason and do I think you're crazy-no way! A co-worker of my husband lost his mother after a rather lengthy illness. He was very close with his mother and in fact took care of her through most of her illness. His mom loved Cardinals and on one particlar day when he was feeling particularly blue and thinking of his mom he looked out and sitting there in his backyard was the most beautiful red cardinal. I believe that those that have passed on are still watching over us and that there are people that are so attuned to one another to sense when things are not right.

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Sun, 12-21-2003 - 9:38am
I don't think you're crazy at all.I believe that those we love and those that touch our lives in some way live on.They are always with us in some way.What a wonderful thing for your Mother to love and to be loved so much and to be able to draw so close those who mean so much to her.As much as you all miss her I'm sure you all felt great comfort from each other.

Miss P




 

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Sun, 12-21-2003 - 10:52am

I do believe in things like this happening for a reason. I've had several significant incidents happen in my life that are unexplainable by traditional standards, yet they happened and served a purpose. My older sister and I frequently say, do, or buy the same things at the same time even when we're hundreds of miles apart. We've both sent the same card to the same person for an occasion several times, have had the same watch, same slacks, same dress, same bras, and often freak her grown daughter out by saying the same thing at the same time. Sometimes I'll be thinking about her, and she'll call me long distance or vice versa. People say we are like twins born 3 years and 9 months apart. LOL!


Sounds as though your mother's presence is being felt strongly

       ~~Rhonda~~


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Mon, 12-22-2003 - 8:45am
I believe in God's Heaven and salvation through faith in Jesus as His embodiment, and that when we physically die, we are simply "absent from the body". I think holidays make all people (even those who don't profess any kind of faith) think about what's important and will draw them closer together. For months after DH's dad passed away, he would dream he was talking to his dad or doing something with him. They were much more real than any dream about family members he'd had before... and then he'd wake up, and find that it was just a dream, a real let down. Stuff like you're experiencing and my husband experienced just "don't happen." I really believe it's all orchestrated, and I think it's God working His healing in our lives, rearranging our priorities, but also telling us it's okay to move forward.




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Mon, 12-22-2003 - 10:20am
Margie - I absolutely believe in such things. I believe your mom is reaching out to you and your sister at what must be a very difficult time through these caring friends and family members. I believe she wants you both to take comfort in their care (and hers) and to find joy in this wonderful season. And I believe she wants you to comfort them in return.

Donna