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My Dad
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"The world passeth away…but he that doeth the will of God abideth forever."
-1 John 2:17
I talk to my Dad almost everyday. I told him I would as he lay in his Hospice bed at home. He smiled when I told him I that. I also asked him several times to send me 'signs' if he could after he was gone. He smiled and snickered a little. But ah! I do believe he has! The day after he passed onto his eternal life, my mom awoke to find one of her living room lamps on. We always just leave the small, orange night light on. I was the last to bed the night my father passed and I KNOW I sat in the living room, before retiring to bed with only the orange glow of the night light. My mom and I did NOT turn the big lamp on, I believe my dad did as a way of telling us he's ok.
When my dad was sick, my mom told him they each should have a 'sign' to let each other know they were ok after passing. She said "Hmmmm, let's use something with the clock and our birthdays (my mom's being July 6th, my dad's July 11th) My father passed away as the clock struck 6pm ~ the number 6, my mom's birthday.
The 1st Christmas after my Dad passed, 2002, I was getting ready at my mom's to go by my brother and sister-in-laws house, I said to Dad, "I know you'll be with us tonight Dad on Christmas Eve, but can you give me a sign?" I thought about it and said, "Something obvious, like turning the TV on or off, or turning the lights on or off." The moment my Mom and I stepped inside my brother's house on Christmas eve, their Christmas lights blew out. My brother said his wife blew the fuse because she was blow drying her hair. I kept asking "Are you SURE it was just the fuse?" Later that evening I explained to him why I asked that. I told him how I asked Dad to send me a sign that he was there with us, and one of my requests was to turn the lights on or off, and here the Christmas lights went off. My brother turned, looked at me and said "That fuse hasn't blown in 2 years". Thanks Dad, I know you were there………
Almost every night that I go to bed, I pray to God and talk with him, then talk with my Dad too. I also say the "Act of Contrition" Prayer. As my Dad lay in his Hospice bed, a Chaplain came to sit with him one day. They talked and then prayed. One of the prayers was the "Act of Contrition" which even though I attended Catholic grammer school for 8 years, I never learned this prayer. I knew it was a prayer my Mom and Dad learned when they were young, but as the Chaplain said the prayer, my Dad struggled to remember the words. A tear rolled down his face as he fumbled for the words. After my Dad passed, I vowed to learn this prayer and say if for him every night that I could. There are several versions of this prayer, but this is the version my parents knew:
Oh my God,
I am heartily sorry for having offended thee.
And I detest all my sins,
because I dread the loss of Heaven, and the pains of hell.
But most of all because they offend thee my God
who are all good and deserving of all my love.
I firmly resolve, with the help of thy grace,
to sin no more and to avoid the near occasion of sin.
Amen.
Below you will find links to some books I have read by those who have the ability to communicate with those loved ones we have lost. I know this can be a controversial issue, but all I know is reading these books have helped me understand and cope with losing my dad.
You will also find links to 3 remarkable men who have this ability. In my own mind, I don't view this as 'bad' or 'evil'. We are no longer living in the "Salem witch days" where this should be viewed as such.
I feel those who's "sixth sense" is very active and alive during their waking hours are not doing anything wrong, and they most certainly are not giving me false hope.
Just the opposite, hope is given to me.
These folks have evaporated my fear of 'death' and brought me
solace in my grief over losing my dad. How can that be doing something wrong?? God created
everything and everyone and is perfection. He does not make errors or mistakes with anything or anyone.
We all were born with free will, and one of those is to believe in what we choose. I believe in God, I believe my Dad can and does have some form of link to me still and I believe those who have the gift of communicating with those who have passed have helped me cope.
*Joan of Arc ~ She was hearing voices, sometimes accompanied by visions. She
was convinced the voices belonged to St. Michael and to the early martyrs
St. Catherine of Alexandria and St. Margaret. The voices spoke unto her to
help the Dauphin (later Charles VII, King of France). She led the French to
a decisive victory over the English at the battle of Orleans. She was
captured by Burgundian soldiers, who in turn sold her to their English
allies. Joan was brought before an ecclesiastical court at Rouen to be tried
for heresy and witchcraft. Joan of Arc was burned at the
stake in the Old Market Square at Rouen. Twenty-five years after her death,
the church re-tried her case and pronounced her innocent. In 1920, she was
canonized by Pope Benedict XV.
(Above is an example of the skepticsim of humans. Many did not believe Joan of
Arc when she revealed the voices and visions she had experienced, in turn
those who did not believe persecuted and killed her. We have the God given
ability to believe and think what we choose. There are a ton of different
faiths or a ton of different morals each of us carry. None of us will know for
sure what happens after death until our own time comes. So why debate or argue,
enjoy your physical life and believe in yourself and your own mind until your turn for eternal life)
*Joan of Arc
Everlasting Life….
"This is the promise that he hath promised us, even eternal life." -1 John 2:25
"...We [psychics] are here to heal people and to help people grow...skeptics...they're just here to destroy people. They're not here to encourage people, to enlighten people. They're here to destroy people."
--James Van Praagh on "Larry King Live," March 6, 2001
James Van Pragh Official Website
"Talking To Heaven, A Medium's Message of Life After Death"
"It is not always about, you know, love and light, peace and new age fluffy stuff. It is to validate that the energy outside the physical body is still
connected to the family that's here." --- John Edwards on "Larry King live",
March 6, 2001
John Edwards Official Website
"I don't 'raise', 'conjure', 'summon' or 'invoke' the dead. I discern them"
--- George Anderson (Ibid, p. 47).
George Anderson Official Website
" We Don't Die, George Anderson's Conversations
With the Other Side "
"In my Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you" - John 14:2
When I am gone, release me, let me go,
I have so many things to see and do,
You must not tie yourself to me with tears.
Be happy that we had so many years.
I gave you my love, You can only guess,
How much you gave to me in happiness.
I thank you for the love you each have shown,
But now it is time I travel alone.
So grieve a while for if grieve you must,
then let your grief be, comforted by trust.
It's only for awhile that we must part,
so bless the memories within your heart.
I won't be far away, for life goes on.
So if you need me, call and I will come.
Though you can't see or touch me, I'll be near.
And if you listen with your heart, you'll hear,
All of my love around you, soft and clear.
And then, when you must come this way alone,
I'll greet you with a smile, and say,.......
"Welcome Home"
Me & my Wonderful Dad, I love you....
 
  
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