Today, while at doctor’s appointment I met a lady in the waiting room and I just wanted to relay her story. She was eighty-two years old and sharp as a tack. We were exchanging pleasantries while waiting our turn to get in when she told about her four children. She was forty when she had her little girl, which was the same age I was when my wife and I had our little girl. When I asked her how her daughter was doing these days, she informed me that a drunk driver had killed her when she was but eighteen years old. She was on her way home from the movies when she and her friends we careened by the drunk driver. This had been many years ago (1983) and I felt comfortable enough to ask her if her daughter had ever tried to communicate with her after she had passed away. She told me the following story.
"It had been about seven months since she had died and I was up late one night crying and I told the Lord I wouldn’t be able to continue on. It was just too much for me, as I had lost my oldest son during the Vietnam War in 1968 and my husband a few years later form heart attack, and now my little girl! Just at this time I heard an audible voice! It was my daughter’s voice just as if she were speaking to me on the telephone, kinda like that. I was wide-awake when it happened. I didn’t dream it.
She said, Moei (her daughters nickname for her), I am fine, and I want you to go on with your life.
But I miss you so much.
We will be together again.
But it won’t be like before (She explains to me how they loved to go to the mall and shop.)
It will be as good as before Moie, and even better.
With that, the conversation with her daughter ended. She was able to draw strength form that experience and continue on with her life. She choked up a few times telling the story, but I could tell it was very healing for her to relay it to me just the same. She lost another son in 1993 to colon cancer. All she has left now is one son who is doing well. All this she has gone through and yet she has a very happy expression on her face and seems very healthy for her age. Ya just never know whom you’re talking to. Well, I just wanted to share this story and maybe see if anyone else has any such stores that they would like to relate.
Thanks,
Steve