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My motherinlaw lost her sister (Judy) a decade or so ago, but she still talks to and about her as though she's still as though she is still living. At first I thought my MIL. was just weird.
That changed the other day when my daughter (Judy, named after her great aunt) said she used to see her aunt Judy, but she doesn't visit her anymore.
I find that it doesn't bug me, but in fact I find comfort in it. My question is has aunt Judy's spirit moved on or has my daughter(turning five in feb) just lost her ability to she her?
I've never seen or talked to ghost, but I have seen other evidence of spirits in my travels. I would like to hear the opinion of other with more experience. Thanks Mountian Wolf
[ September 18, 2004, 07:19 AM: Message edited by: mountian wolf ]
That changed the other day when my daughter (Judy, named after her great aunt) said she used to see her aunt Judy, but she doesn't visit her anymore.
I find that it doesn't bug me, but in fact I find comfort in it. My question is has aunt Judy's spirit moved on or has my daughter(turning five in feb) just lost her ability to she her?
I've never seen or talked to ghost, but I have seen other evidence of spirits in my travels. I would like to hear the opinion of other with more experience. Thanks Mountian Wolf
[ September 18, 2004, 07:19 AM: Message edited by: mountian wolf ]
Mountain Wolf, I've thought about similar things myself. Sometimes I wonder if we somehow keep someone's memory so alive that we convince children that the deceased person is still around.
However, I know that children do indeed see things that we don't. I've seen my own nephew react to things that I could not see, and I observed him when he was smaller when we would go to cemetaries. He would often go toward the tombstones of children and act like he was playing with someone the rest of us could not see.
My own little one, who is 21 months has done similar things. My father passed away just as we were starting the adoption process, but he had been very excited for us. After we got Brianna, my mother passed away just a month after. I have a very bittersweet memory of my mother, laying on a hospital bed in the last days of her life, holding my baby and uttering terms of endearment in cajun French.
My baby will never know either of the grandparents who loved her so much. However, when she sees a picture of my father, she babbles gleefully and points to him. She has done this almost from the moment we brought her home. Brianna spent the first nine months of her life in a Chinese orphanage and I would like to think that Dad watched over her during that time. She also occasionally babbles sweetly in the mornings, seeming to carry on a conversation with someone I cannot see.
Whether Brianna knows my father from the spirit world, or because of my trying to keep his memory alive with old pictures and talking about he and my mother, I'm not sure. I do feel that both my parents are somehow watching over my daughter and I and she definitely reacts to something.
However, I know that children do indeed see things that we don't. I've seen my own nephew react to things that I could not see, and I observed him when he was smaller when we would go to cemetaries. He would often go toward the tombstones of children and act like he was playing with someone the rest of us could not see.
My own little one, who is 21 months has done similar things. My father passed away just as we were starting the adoption process, but he had been very excited for us. After we got Brianna, my mother passed away just a month after. I have a very bittersweet memory of my mother, laying on a hospital bed in the last days of her life, holding my baby and uttering terms of endearment in cajun French.
My baby will never know either of the grandparents who loved her so much. However, when she sees a picture of my father, she babbles gleefully and points to him. She has done this almost from the moment we brought her home. Brianna spent the first nine months of her life in a Chinese orphanage and I would like to think that Dad watched over her during that time. She also occasionally babbles sweetly in the mornings, seeming to carry on a conversation with someone I cannot see.
Whether Brianna knows my father from the spirit world, or because of my trying to keep his memory alive with old pictures and talking about he and my mother, I'm not sure. I do feel that both my parents are somehow watching over my daughter and I and she definitely reacts to something.
I've never seem a ghost myself, but I can honestly say that our grandmother (who had never seen us because she lived in another country) did come to see us the day that she died. Maybe at times spirits of our departed loved ones do come and visit us and feel it's okay to move on when they see how well everything is being taken care of, and once they make the journey home they still watch over us and cover us with their 'wings' of love, taking the protecter roll over us? Hope I made sense.
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