Living and Loving
One summer, she was working on a window washing crew. The crew was doing a house above the lake where the owner had passed away.
Late in the afternoon, she created an intention to be a channel for this gentleman if he cared to communicate. She received a very clear message: “Mind your own business. You are only the window washer!”
The crew got a good laugh out of it.
A friend’s obituary showed up in my inbox at work. I process obits.
My friend was 97. She had given me a Tupperware container before she moved away four years earlier.
My lunch salad was in that container. The previous day I noticed the lid had cracked….
She noticed a street light went out. She had a wondering if it was a communication from her husband.
At that exact moment of her wondering, a second street light also went out!
Her most frequent snack of late was mandarin oranges. She was driving on a four-lane road, when—on the dotted line in her lane—she saw a single mandarin orange slice.
Recognizing it as odd, she missed the message of a visit from her husband until the very next day (on a different four-lane road!) she saw—again on the dotted line in her lane—another single mandarin orange slice.
She had a back brush she would use to scratch her back when it itched. She kept the brush on the floor next to her bed.
One night, soon after her husband died, when she turned down her bed, the brush was in their bed!
It was rainy, cold, and dark—exactly how she felt—when she saw the deflated helium balloon on the ground in the park. Her heart was filled with grief and disdain as she grabbed the trash and tossed it into the back seat of her car. She had made the long (out-of-state) trip back to the town where her husband had died one year earlier. What had she hoped to gain?
Feeling totally alone, she drove toward home. She was startled by a noise in the back seat and, looking in the rear view mirror, near terrified as she saw a shadowy image behind her. Then she realized what it was; the balloon had been inflated by the warmth of the car heater.
