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3/10/2022 0 Comments Departed love ones use songs to connect with us and let us know they're still watching over us!(( (Dad) My father suffered from Alzheimer’s disease and in February of 2015 he suffered a stroke that left him paralyzed on the right side of his body. I was once again devastated. We had no choice but to move him into a long-term care nursing home as we were unable to meet all of his physical needs. This broke our hearts! It was around this time that I started hearing a song by Casting Crowns called “Just Be Held.” The lyrics seemed to be shouting at me from the rooftops and reminding me that my world wasn’t falling apart but rather falling into place. During the 9 months my dad was in the nursing home, this song was always playing just when I needed a reminder that God was with us during this transition in our lives. My mother was disabled after a fall in 2001 and we had been caring for her daily from the time our father developed Alzheimer’s in 2010 and was no longer able to care for her himself. We also cared for our special needs adult brother. Our family was faced with more heart wrenching decisions. The first of which was moving our mother to an assisted living home since we were no longer able to be home with her during the day. She had suffered another fall and was moved to rehab at the same Long Term Care facility as our father. It was then we had to tell her when she was released from rehab, she would be moving into an Assisted Living home. We played the same song for her and explained that her life wasn’t falling apart, it was also falling into place. She would be having 3 meals a day with her sister-in-law and others that lived at the assisted living facility, she would have entertainment, crafts and she would be living life again instead of staring out the window and watching her family and neighbors go about their daily commitments. Once the decision was made and we moved her into the assisted living facility in November, I truly believe our father’s soul knew it was now ok to go home. Our family gathered around his bedside at the nursing home as his body was shutting down. We had a Christian radio station playing softly as we sat with him. At one point both my sister and I climbed into the bed with him and as he took his last breath, “Just Be Held” was playing on the radio. You really can’t make this stuff up!
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3/10/2022 0 Comments Departed loved ones us songs to connect with us and let us know they're still watching over us!(Mom) Our mother’s health began to rapidly decline in Jan. 2018. We knew she was beyond ready to join our dad in the spirit realm. However, she was determined to be here when her grandson came home on military leave from Japan and to be here for three of her granddaughter’s high school graduations. We were taking turns caring for her at home with the assistance of hospice. She was very weak and feverish but she insisted on getting photos with her three granddaughters in their caps and gowns. One granddaughter graduated the following day. She took a turn for the worse on Monday, May 21st 2018 and wasn’t conscious for about 24 hours. Tuesday the 22nd her grandson made it home from Japan to say his goodbyes. When she heard his voice, after being non-responsive for 24 hours, her eyes opened and her arms reached out for a hug. There was not a dry eye in the room! She never opened her eyes again and we thought she would let go that night. She did not! Her twin granddaughters were graduating on Wednesday the 23rd. She wasn’t going anywhere! Friday May 25th, all the grandkids had planned to go to Lexington for the night. They were having a house party in the college home my oldest daughter would be renting with classmates for the summer and senior year of college. The kids all hesitated leaving but we assured them that grandma wanted them to go have fun and initiate the ‘senior students house’. Again, we had the Christian radio station playing and we thought for sure when the song ‘Just Be Held’ played, she would take her final breath just as our dad had done. My sister and her husband went to bed and I was lying on the couch next to my mom’s bed. I prayed to God that I wouldn’t sleep through her last breath. I asked the Angels to wake me up if my mother started to let go. Shortly before midnight I awoke suddenly and knew she didn’t have long. I woke my sister/brother-in-law and as the 3 of us said our goodbyes she took her final breath. The song playing on the radio was one we weren’t familiar with but later learned it was by Mercy Me, “The Hurt and the Healer.” As we were calling our brothers to let them know mom had 'graduated', the next song on the radiio was “Just Be Held.” We had to laugh. Of course, mom chose her own song to make her exit and if you listen to the lyrics it was so appropriate for her as she had been disabled for 17 years. Then our dad played his song next, letting us know he was right there with mom as he escorted her home to Jesus! She left on her terms! She waited until all the grandkids were miles away celebrating endings and new beginnings. 3/10/2022 0 Comments Departed loved ones use songs to connect with us and let us know they're watching over us! (Linda)
Five years ago today, Feb. 2, 2017, a dear friend committed suicide after years of mental health struggles. The day of her funeral we were pulling away from the cemetery where her body was laid to rest and the song “Home” by Chris Tomlin started playing on the radio. I knew instantly Linda was telling me she was finally home in heaven, where every fear is gone and every chain is broken. I encourage you to listen to the song lyrics. She continues to reach through the spirit realm on days when I’m remembering her and also uses this song to alert me of her presence! 3/10/2022 0 Comments Departed loved ones use songs to connect with us and let us know they're still watching over us!(Pam)
When I was 15 years old, my neighbor/softball coach/’big sister’ Pam 'graduated' from this Earth as a result of a brain tumor. I was devastated! She was only 25 years old. I remember writing a poem to her after the funeral and crying my eyes out every time the song “Always Something There To Remind Me” by Naked Eyes would play on the radio. It was about three decades later when I started noticing Pam reaching out to me and reminding me she was still ‘with me’, as the song would randomly play wherever I happened to be, when I was thinking of her. One year, it was Jan. 21st which was her birthday. I was walking through Bed, Bath & Beyond and in my mind wishing Pam a happy birthday. The next song that played over the store intercom was “Always Something There To Remind Me.” It made me smile! Ever since I took notice of the link between thinking of her and the song playing it happened more often. Another significant time this happened I had been at my parent’s house with my teenage twin girls. As I was pulling away from the house to make the 40 min drive home, I glanced at the house Pam grew up in and said to myself, “Hey Pam, where have you been, I haven’t heard your song in a while.” We were almost home when I decided to stop for gas a couple miles from the house. It was 2013 and I had a brand new SUV. After pumping the gas and turning the car back on, you would’ve thought the world was coming to an end when the radio didn’t automatically turn on. The twins were accusing me of not knowing how to work the new car and frantically trying to tell me how to control the radio. You’d think they were going to die in the silence! We continued to drive in silence. At a stop sign I turned off the ignition and re-started the car hoping the radio would turn on since I was trying to appease the girls. As I reached another stop sign I said to myself, “Pam, are you messing with my radio?” and laughed silently. We pulled in the garage about 5 minutes later and both girls raced out of the car and into the house. I turned off the ignition and began to get out of the car when I thought to myself, “This is a new car and if the radio isn’t working, I need to take it back to the dealer and have it looked at!” I got back in the car to make sure it wasn’t ‘user error’ before calling the dealership and restarted the ignition. What do you know, the radio came on and what song was playing? You guessed it! I started honking the horn to get the girls attention. One of them popped her head out the door to see what was going on and all I could say was, “The song, it’s the song!” They thought I was crazy, but I knew once again that Pam was reaching through the spirit realm to say hello! To this day, she still reaches out to me with the song I first heard 40 years ago! In 1996, as a result of receiving one Depo-Provera birth control injection at my 6-week postpartum check-up after the birth of our first child, I was rendered infertile. (Despite nursing my newborn, I started spotting the day after the injection and this didn’t stop for almost a year). Prior to this injection, I had a 16-year history of perfect 28-day monthly menstrual cycles. After battling a couple years of irregular cycles, infertility, guilt and shame related to making a hasty, uninformed decision to receive a birth control shot when pressured by my OB-GYN, we began seeking fertility treatments to conceive another child. After endless months of no success, I was cooking scrambled eggs for breakfast. The first several eggs I cracked open were double yolks (twins). My heart leapt and I felt God was giving me a sign that not only would I conceive soon, but we would be blessed with twins. As I continued through the carton of eggs throughout the week, to my amazement, every single egg was a double yolk. It was unbelievable! Another day, around this same time, we went to see the progress being made on a home we were building. The house was framed and under roof, but the garage door had not yet been installed. In the corner of what would be our new garage, there were 2 eggs a duck had laid in the corner. Once again, my heart filled with joy and hope. I don’t remember the timeline between these signs and the day I found out we were pregnant, but it was in March 1999 when a sonogram showed not one, but two babies! It was a wild ride! One twin tried to ‘make her escape’ at just 26 weeks gestation when her embryonic sac ruptured. As I laid in the hospital on complete bedrest for about 3 1/2 weeks, I somehow kept the faith that eventually we would be bringing home 2 babies. The girls arrived very early at 30 weeks gestation. They were in the NICU for 3 weeks before coming home to join their big sister, who was 3 years and 3 days older! God has continued to amaze me with signs from the spirit realm ever since! |
AuthorI've often shared my personal experiences of signs I've received from the spirit realm with others in hopes they might start recognizing signs they're being sent from God, the Angels or loved ones who have returned Home. I've been encouraged over the years to write down my experiences and share them on a blog or in a book. I'll start with this blog and see where spirit leads me next! The stories are in no particular order as I've just recently started to write them down and I'll be adding them here as time allows. I hope you enjoy the true stories of my personal signs from the spirit realm that have made the difficult experiences in my life quite a bit easier! In my stories, I like to refer to someone's return to the spirit realm as 'graduation from this Earth school'. Some people will say the stories are just coincidences and that's okay. It's not my job nor my desire to prove anything to anyone. My only goal is to share what I know to be true! ArchivesCategories |
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