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I am sending my positive energy your way…. your grandmother sounds like she’s left her mark on your family, so through you all, she will live on.
Here’s some hugs from me! Heaven knows you’ve given me enough that I can return the favor.
Hi guys- just a quick update… things are not looking good or they are depending on your view point. Gram’ma’s doctors have given a prognosis for her of a week to 2 weeks for her remaining stay on earth. Our family has been praying that Our Heavenly Father will do what is best for Gram’ma in the quickest way possible. It is hard not to feel sad about this as we love her dearly and she has been the lynch pin in our extended family that has held us all together. We’ve explained it to the boys like this; before we came to our earthly home we had all lived with our heavenly family; our Father and our Mother and the best Older Brother – Christ, that a kid could have. They all knew that there would be a time when we would have to leave our heavenly existence for a short stay at “boarding school” in order to gain a body and hopefully learn more of the things we would need to know to be able to “go home” back to our heavenly existence. My brother Eddy explained it to his young children like this – he used a felt hand puppet that his kids sometimes use at church to help them to be reverent during the service. He put the puppet on his hand and wiggled it around, made it wave hello to the kids and gave them each a “hug”. He asked his children what it was that made the puppet move; could it move on it’s own? Tyler replied that it had to have a hand in it to make it move. “That’s right” said Eddy. Then he continued. “What happens if I have to take off the puppet to go answer the phone or do some work? Can it move by itself?” “No” said Katy “you have to make it work”. Eddy then said, “I want you to think for a minute about your body – the one that lives here on earth with our family. What is it that makes you walk and talk and run and jump and learn and grow? Can it do all that by itself? Now think of our baby that’s going to be born soon. When you put your head on Mummy’s tummy and he kicks you how does he know to do that?” The kids were quiet for a moment then Tyler who is 6 said “I know how. It’s the sprirt that lives inside our body that makes it move.” “Right!” said their mom. “Our spirit makes us who we are. If we saw our spirit without our body we would know who it is because it would look like us and talk like us and be us!” Then Ed took the hand puppet off and laid it carefully on the table. “Now,” he said, “what happens to our body when our spirit goes home to Heavenly Father?” Katy said “It doesn’t move” “You’re right, without our spirit our body can’t move. This is what is happening to Gram’ma Great. Her Spirit is going home to Heavenly Father and the rest of our Family that is already there like her mummy and papa and Gram’pa Great and her brothers. Just think what a really fun party they’re going to have when she gets there!” Tyler and Katie looked at the puppet on the table “but we’ll miss her” “Yes” said their mum “we will” Tyler thought a bit more and asked “so when you put the puppet on your hand it’s like your body being put on your spirit?” “Bingo!” said my brother “that’s exactly right! And when Heavenly Father says that it’s time to come home and take off your body, your spirit will still be able to run, and laugh and dance and do all the things it learned to do while it lived on earth.” “And when it’s time for us to go home, we’ll get to see her again won’t we?” said Katy. “Exactly! We may miss her for a little while but we’ll all get to go home one of these days and have a humungus family reunion! Won’t that be aweome!” So this is how our family has been explaining our seperatation from our beloved Mum. Gram’ma. Gram’ma Great, Auntie and Friend. I hope I haven’t offended anyone here – that was never, ever my intention. We just love her very, very much and KNOW that her “homecoming party” will be spectacular! but please pass the tissue ’cause we’ll still really, really, miss her
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Awww Beckums [hugs tight]. It is sad and it is happy–your Grandma has been on this earth a long, long time and it is hard to let loved ones go. The way you and your brother explained it to the children is wonderful! There is always a sadness in moving on because you have to let go of something so that you can grasp another. You have the spirit of Grandma with you always–she lives in your hearts and you are her offspring. What a wonderful legacy she has passed on. 🙂
Aww thankies Fern! I just hope I haven’t offended anyone with our family’s belief system… 😳
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Wow. This made me cry, it’s absolutely one of the most lovely descriptions I’ve read about the way our lives are related to heaven and earth, and the difference between our bodies and spirits. Thank you so very much for sharing this tdm. I know it can’t be easy. You want to be excited for your loved ones who are about to return to their true home, but at the same time you want to keep them here and continue to love on them in this world. I’m saddened to hear the news about her, but your story puts things into perspective beautifully concerning the spectacular place she is about to return. I’d like to share a story with you told by the Chief of a small Cherokee Nation reservation south of us. My cousin and I are friends of the family, only he spent more time with them than I did because he lived only a few miles away from the reservation.
The chief had a near death experience in the hospital. As it was happening, he found himself standing in front of a beautiful river. His family and friends were on the other side, smiling and waving at him. There was no bridge to cross over the river, so he walked into the river and began to cross it. Immediately his family and friends started shaking their heads and telling him to go back, that it wasn’t his time yet. He stopped and turned around, and as soon as he got out of the river he woke up in the hospital. The Chief has since passed on to the other side, but whenever I think of one’s final breath in this world I remember that story and my heart smiles. 🙂
All will be well hon, great things await us. And please remember that we are here for you through the good times and the difficult. *Hugs tight*
thnks MG – those near death stories are sacred to me and I appreciate you sharing it with me! It just proves to me what I’ve always known which is 1) I lived with my Heavenly Father and Mother and Family before I was born on earth
2) after I have learned and done what i was sent to accomplish here at “college, university, boarding school”, earth, I will get to go Home
3) I am created in the image of Godliness – I have those same attributes but they are in embryonic form at this time
4) The people that inhabit this earth are my literal brothers and sisters and we need to all help each other to be able to go Home and not get lost along the way.
5) When we all get home there is gonna be one heck of a killer party and I won’t have to give you all cyberhugs–I’ll hug you all til you can’t hardly breathe and cry all over you ’cause we’ll FINALLY be the family we want to be and not neccesarrily the family we were randomly sent to…I love you all so, so much! thanks for letting me ramble, and cry, and explain my beliefs without being belittled for them and for being told that I’m not Christian and because i don’t believe the “right” way that I’m going to hell. Thanks for being my “other” family
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My dearest friends,
We recieved this message late last night… “Dear family, We just got a call from Uncle John. My Mom passed away about an hour ago. As plans are made we will let you know.
Kay and I are doing OK. Not as if it was a big surprise. It will be a hard night I am sure. She is already missed; she was my daily eMail companion. Now I don’t have anybody to complain about the weather to. Love you all.
Ray & Kay — Dad & Mom”
We didn’t get the email til this morning. I feel so much for my dear papa. He is the oldest child in his family and now is the Patriarch of our Marshall Family. We are not certain of funeral services yet since the family lives all over the world, literally. It will probaby be a rather “weepy” day but our family will rely on what we’ve been taught and what we know to be true; that our dearl loved gran’ma is now at “home” with family she hasn’t seen for such a very, very long time. She finally gets to meet her german grand’ma who she looked for in documentations for as long as I can remember and who we finally found in her wedding documents last year in a tiny, tiny town in Germany. How exciting will that be for her! I’m sorry, I’ll write more later. I’m so, so happy for her but I miss her so much already. More later
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Male Hearth....one day🤞Dream on.So sorry for your loss Beckums–yet you knew this was going to happen. It’s hard on us survivors because we’ve been left behind. I like that story that MGuts told about that Cherokee Chief and when he saw his departed loved ones on the other side of the river. Think of the people your Grandma lost in her life that she is now reunited with. What joy that must be for her to see these people and to cross over to be with them. When your time comes [and I hope it won’t be for a long time] you’ll see her on the other side of that river welcoming you.
There will come a time when there will be one heck of a party goin’ on when all of us meet again or for the first time. Heck yeah! Your Grandma’s with loved ones and whooping it up! 🙂
*hugs* TDM 🙁
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Please visit My Webpage to see my art and PYO's that I've done in the past!To tell the truth, I didn’t read this entire thread (it was breaking my heart to pieces). I just wanted to leave my condolences to you and your family **hugs**
Like you said tdm, hang on to the truth that you know and remember that you will be reunited with her and the rest of your true family one day, because it’s not goodbye forever. The bridge was ready for her, and it was time for the crossing. *Hugs tightly* I love you hon!!
My condolences to you and your entire family tdm! You will see her again in time and the stories she will tell will comfort you no end. {{Hugs}}
Oh! I haven’t been online since the ‘good’ update previous page- I’m so sorry, Becky! *big hug* my prayers for you and your family.
My grandmother (an active, vital woman though nowheres near the degree of your grandmother) had a long drawn out final battle- it was three or so years of hell for her. It truly is a blessing in disguise for her to have been taken home so quickly. I am glad God heard us in that respect, even if it isn’t always the answer we left behind wanted.
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