This story rewinds life approximately 18 months to another morning of prayer and meditation, the way I begin each day. I find direction and guidance in creating an open spiritual space to receive something other than the 60,000 thoughts the brain likes to fire off every single day.
But this meditation was different… there was an angel with a message. This was a first.
I’m intuitive and knowing, and while I swear angels have been present at different moments in my life, such as during the car accident when I unbelievably walked away from being T-boned in my driver side door, I’d never had an angel come into my meditative space to drop some tidbits of information about the future.
And the message was clear: two people in my family would pass close together. My grandpa was in hospice at the time, so it was apparent his time was drawing near, but I felt the other person in the message was my grandma. This was not so believable. In her upper 80s at the time, she was full of life, love, and adventure! She loved to go places, do things, and was actively involved in all of our lives. She also appeared to be in good health. Although quick deaths from heart attack where not foreign to her family lineage.
With this being a first experience of this kind for me, I wasn’t sure what to do from here. Should I tell my mom since it was her parents or keep it to myself and let time reveal the validity of this wildly surreal moment?
I relied upon my intuition which continued to nudge me to share the story. I was relieved when mom received it with curiosity and intrigue.
My grandfather spent 16 months total in hospice care, so it was many months from having this meditative experience to when he passed away on April 20, 2023. One week, exactly seven days, prior to my grandfather’s passing, my grandma’s sister passed away.
Huh, I must have gotten it wrong I thought quite relieved to believe my grandmother would be championing us through life for many more years to come. She was always a source of love and acceptance, something I wasn’t eager to have depart this physical existence. While there had been two individuals passing in the family very closely together, the second was obviously not my grandmother…I had gotten it right but wrong at the same time.
Life continued on. Gram moved into an assisted living facility in the summer where she loved everything…the people, the activities, trips on the bus, movies, bingo, and more. Many decades ago, when her first grandchild was born, she opted for the name Gramme because she was too young to be a grandmother she said. That spirit lived on even at 90 years old.
Then November rolled around, and Gram ended up at the doctor and then the hospital. A scan revealed a dire diagnosis: what was believed to be advanced pancreatic cancer.
I clearly remember the text from mom when she left the hospital that evening saying Gram was sitting up knitting appearing to be in good health. It was impossible to conceive she was terminally ill.
But terminally ill she was indeed as we spent a mere 10 more weeks with her before releasing her to the afterlife.
Gram had great faith and so I shared my meditation experience with her before she passed on. Her response was a smirk and “that’s neat”. Had she had her own inner knowing of something similar? She, too, had always been so intuitive and knowing.
This is just one of the great lessons she’s blessed me with in life. Affirming the mystical spiritual existence of our human experience that far exceeds what we can perceive in the physical. A grander design and plan, and the spiritual messengers who can guide our way.
But this was just the beginning of the lessons she would teach me in her final days of life!
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Peace & Love,
Janessa
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