A message from my dead Father?

[lucyanna girl]

My Father has been dead for four years now. We were extremely close and I miss him every day. He was a small farmer and always wore an inexpensive Timex watch. I would have gladly bought him a more expensive one but he insisted it would just get broken or dirty. Batteries never seemed to last very long and he was always replacing them.
Daddy had Alzheimer's and broke his hip in a fall six months before he died. Those last six months were rouge, we had to put him in a long term care facility as he was difficult to manage. He was not interested in food and lost a lot of weight. His watch no longer did him any good as he did not know what year it was much less what time. I sadly brought it to my home and stored it in my jewelry box - a priceless item among my gee-haws.
As I said, it has been almost four years, and I see that old, cheap watch daily when I get dressed and put on my jewelry. The eerie part is, It is still ticking and keeps perfect time. I suppose it is just my heart willing it to be so but I like to think of this as a message from him that his spirit goes on.

 

[Lil_Tink]

Could be.

 

[ugadog99]

Others may disagree and even flame me, but I do believe in messages sent from our loved ones who are no longer with us. I have a dear friend who passed away from brain cancer four years ago, but I still feel like she visits from time to time. If you feel it is your father's message, then it is.

Melanie

 

[Pea-n-Me]

I think it's a nice way to think about it. P.S. I still have my father's watch too.

 

[dcentity2000]

There are so many things in this world that we know nothing about. You never know



Rich::

 

[nealymouse]

Yes its a message............. IMO of course.

Have you ever read the book Many Masters, Many Minds by Brian Weiss ? If not do yourself a favor and get it. I received the book as a gift after my mom passed and it really helped me understand so much about life and the messages we receive from our loved ones.

Everytime I see my moms old phone number 9538 on a licence plate I know she is close. Its funny how many times I have seen that number in the last 4.5 years. My mom was always after us kids to drive safe !!!

 

[Dan Murphy]

 

[Mishetta]

I certainly do believe in 'signs' or 'messages'. Of course, I'm the one who came home from a school meeting on 3/13, walked into my kitchen & saw my FIL sitting on my familyroom couch. He died last year. He just looked at me with no expression on his face & then disappeared. We were never close so not like I longed to see him or anything. My Mom passed 2.5 years ago & she has appeared to me a couple times since ~ not since last October though. I really miss her.

Hang on to that watch. It's your link from this world to the other side.

 

[Planogirl]

I believe in such things. Too many events like this can be documented to not convince me that we are often in contact with the other side.

 

[MouseWorshipin]

I don't know if it is a message or not, but it does show that the love your Dad had for you has extended long past his death.

That's a powerful & beautiful thing in itself.

 

[Niagara2]

Hi Started a new business... called the phone company and they say your phone will be ready Thursday and the number will be 28283.... I dropped the phone....that was my Mom;s number and she died 12 years earlier....that business is doing fine and growing, the others are just a pain and alot of work. It truly believe she was telling me to go for it!

 

[raammartin]

I've always believed that when a loved one passes it's their body that is gone and that their spirit and soul stay with us. If you believe that it is a message from your father then it is.

 

[Zmsksirt]

Nothing supernatural here. After all, they take a licking and still keep ticking.

 

[DebIreland]

Yes I think it is a sign that your Dad is watching over you.

My Dad died almost 4 years ago too. He died the week before we had a holiday booked to Italy and, of course, my first instinct was to cancel but my family and friends urged us to go as the children had been so excited for a long time about the trip and, in any case, I was grieving and feeling very sad, whether I was here or there so we went. It was tough as my heart was breaking.

Midway through our holiday we decided on a whim to drive practically the whole length (well almost) of Italy from Venice to Tuscany because the campsite we were staying in (in a mobile home) had a horrid infestation of mosquitos and we were literally head to toe in huge mosquito bites and couldn't take it anymore. We had never driven in a foreign country before (on the other side of the road) so I was quite nervous especially as it was unplanned. So we packed up and I stayed behind for a minute in the mobile home to check that we hadn't forgotten anything. A peculiar (though trivial at the time) thing happened - as I was going out the door, a butterfly flew in, right towards me and landed on my shoulder and I remember thinking "wow! Where'd he come from all of a sudden?". lol! He was a beautiful little thing and oddly, I hadn't seen any butterflys around the campsite all that week (just mosquitos!!).

Anyway, on we went with our holiday and fortunately, we had an incident-free drive to and from Tuscany. When we got home, the pain and heartache hit me like a ton of bricks almost worst than the morning my Dad died. Oh God how I wanted to come home and call to Dad and tell him about the holiday. I thought I would die of grief. One lonely night, out of sheer despair, I went to a message board I frequented and I logged on for the first time to a Grief and Bereavement site and I posted that I couldn't cope with the pain in my heart. A stranger posted back two minutes later - a very nice post saying she understood and that the pain would ease with time. She wrote a long message about her deceased mother and at the end she said "everytime I see a butterfly I feel my mother near me". I was perplexed by this and when I questioned it she said that there is a belief out there that when you see a butterfly, especially if the butterfly touches you i.e. lands on you, soon after the death of a loved one, it is a sign from your loved one that they are looking out for you. I had never heard of such a belief before that. Well, of course I immediately thought back to that moment when the butterfly flew into the mobile home and landed on my shoulder just prior to us taking our 'scary' drive!

To add to that, the very next day I took the children to see my Dad's grave as they had bought him a little gift in Italy for his grave. They had picked it out themselves. When my DS put it on the grave I took one look at it and thought I would faint. I hadn't studied it in great detail before - it was a simple little plastic souvenir with water inside and a sea shell and guess what? It was in the shape of a butterfly.

That was all I needed as proof that my Dad was watching over us and he still is.

Sorry this got very long. Your Dad is looking after you, have no doubt.

 

[Mimi Q]

 

[UrsulasMyHero]

my daddy wore a timex all the time too. Maybe they're shooting the breeze on the other side.

 

[Bonnie40]

I soooo believe that your father's watch is meant for you to be constantly reminded of the fact that he is with you and watching out for you!

I believe that we all have people that have passed looking out for us...I'll tell you my experience that clinched it for me...

Two years ago we decided to drive right through from WDW back to Southern Ontario - a 23 hr drive. We called my folks around dinner time and let them know we would be home earlier than planned because we were going to drive through the night. My mom was worried, and told us to be careful. From what I remember of the drive, I thought it had been uneventful and we arrived home safe and sound. It wasn't until a few days later when we were visiting my folks and talking about the trip, that my mom commented on how she didn't sleep well that night knowing we were on the road. She said that at one point she woke up and just said out loud 'please keep them safe'. My husband gets this funny look on his face and then tells us that at one point during the night when all the kids were sleeping and I had dozed off a bit, he actually, for a split second, fell asleep. He said that at that same moment, he felt a surge or something and it snapped him awake and my grandpa's (my mother's father) face just entered his head!

Now, you can believe what you want, but I believe that my grandpa was watching over us and made sure that my husband didn't fall asleep and cause an accident. Why would my grandfather enter my husband's thoughts at that exact moment? He had passed a number of years earlier, but from that point on I have taken great comfort in knowing that he is looking out for me and my family.

 

[4nana]

I love to hear these warm fuzzy stories about parents that have crossed over .

The first yr after my Dad's death, on his BD, the family took a dozen laytex ballons to his resting place. The grands sang HB and released them....they floated away higher and higher till out of sight. However, two blue ones got hung in a tree near his headstone. We like to think it was a message from Daddy and my brother buried beside him, that all is well and they are together again. Dear Dad's been gone 3 yrs now and I welcome any sign I can get!!

No doubt they do help guide us, as they live forever in our hearts. Godspeed ^i^

 

[lucyanna girl]

Thanks everyone, it's good to know I'm not alone in believing that love can span time, distance, and even death. I was always my Daddy's "Baby" while my sister was my mothers. Our only brother was killed in an accident when I was only five. I think he was of the generation that hid their soft side from everyone but their children. I miss him. Reading your posts tells me we all want to keep our loved ones close in our hearts.

 

[JPN4265]

Why Not?