Tears, the healing nature.... Options

[Pamela]

I read an article about grieving and the tears, I found it interesting...That a scientific study has revealed that the chemical content in tears of grief differs from the content of tears of joy. Toxins are released from the body through tears of anguish. I cant even begin to tell you the tears I have cried this last 5 and half weeks in my tears...praying for God to help me...to send me an angel because this was almost to much to bare, I now feel his presence, and comfort, I was in the kitchen last night cooking dinner and I felt the presence of my mom, it was a joyful feeling, a peaceful feeling, a gift full feeling, it was like the same thing I experienced when I was making xmas dinner for dad, the first xmas mom was gone. I know this sounds way out there but it is something that was real to me. I know now Mosse will always be a part of me, he is part of my soul, my spirt, my being, he is part of who I am. And I would like to think that when we all pass, we will see each other again in spirt and thank each other for being there while we were here learning about compassion, pain, love. Pamela

[Gort]

Hmmm, I don't notice any difference in taste

Aside from the occasional thinking I heard Ava's tags jingling (just wishful thinking), I either haven't had any 'signs' from beyond, or they were so subtle I missed them. I'm not religious but that doesn't mean that I don't believe in the 'beyond'. I'm so hoping it's true so I can see 'Hund' again.

[Kathleen032]

Hi, Pamela -

In the last 9 weeks I must've released a lot of toxins from my body...I've cried many a tear over my sweet Shiloh.

Your experience sounds wonderful. I, too, find so much comfort in knowing that Shiloh will always be a part of me. There's no part of me that doubts that our spirits will someday be reunited.
Take care,
Kathleen

[zoeysdad]

Hi Pamela,

Yes, Mosse is and always will be a part of you and I do believe we will all be reunited with our pets in heaven.

I was at the cemetary visiting my Dad's grave recently and I saw this epitaph on a headstone: GOD WOULD NOT HAVE MADE TIES SO STRONG TO BREAK THEM IN HEAVEN.

Thanks for sharing your experience with us. It's great to know what a wonderful relationship you and Mosse had.

__Jim

[Ann H]

Dear Pamela,
I am so glad you felt the presence of Moose and your Mom and felt peace. I have felt my mom a couple of times too. Pamela there is no doubt what so ever in my mind that there is a Heaven and I know for sure our loved ones wait for us. I saw my mother every day down on her knees praying with out fail.

As a child I would sit by her bedroom door and listen to her pray. It was a wonderful comfort to me. Through the good and the bad my mom trusted Him, she said He never one time failed her or let her down. I saw a piece of Heaven and of God's love in my mother's love and compassion that she had for everyone. Mom tried to find only the good in everyone. What a blessing she was to me and all who knew her.

Our babies will always be a part of who we are just as you have stated. We will see each other in Heaven, it has to be Pamela, because my mom's tears and prayers said it all. Not to speak of the Bible says we will be know and be known.
Love, Ann

[Kristie]

HI Pamela,
I also believe that we will see all of our loved ones again and that they do visit us when they can until the time comes for us to reunite. Feeling the presence of Moose must have been wonderful and comforting. You must have felt his peace and happiness...and forgiveness.

I think I had a visit from Kasha the other night. I got up in the middle of the night to feed the baby and I saw (and felt) a black shadow glide past my legs. I swear I felt the swish of her fluffy tail on my ankle. I didn't think anything of it because I was tired and quite used to Kasha tagging along for midnight feedings...until I remembered that she was gone (I still forget sometimes and reach for her in middle of the night for a snuggle). It broke my heart but made me smile. I think it was her way of letting me know that everything is ok now....just like Moose did for you.

Thanks for sharing your experience,
Kristie

[Pamela]

I just want to say that it was'nt like a Slivia Brown moment, it wasnt like my mother and my dog were standing in the kitchen with me, it was just a blanket of comfort, the comfort of my mothers arms around me and knowing I was gonna be okay, I mean really knowing. And that Moose was part of me, now I understand that our loved ones live on in us. Who knows what our grief can do... I dont mean that I dont cry anymore or that I dont miss my boy with all my heart I am just coming to peace with it and my way is to give it to God and ask for restoration. He can do ANYTHING. And I also know when I look at the world with tears in my eyes, I see things that maybe my dry eyes could'nt. Pamela

[SJ J & S]

Believe what you feel they are your feelings and if you cant trust you who can you trust.

Ian and i both saw a black shadow at the same time and the same place and im sorry but you cannot put that down to wishfull thinking or coincidence, not when we both saw it

[Kristie]

[QUOTE=Pamela,Nov 24 2004, 05:17 PM]I just want to say that it was'nt like a Slivia Brown moment, it wasnt like my mother and my dog were standing in the kitchen with me,

In my earlier post I wasn't saying that either. I was just saying that my experience with Kasha was either her way of letting me know that everything was alright or it was my own minds way of dealing with the fact that she is gone. I found it comforting but I didn't mean to imply that I thought you had spirits standing in your kitchen!

Everyone comes to terms with things in their own way and everyone believes in what they believe in....I was just sharing my experience with you.

Kristie

[deedee]

Hm-m-m. I do have Sylvia Brown moments with Oswald. He used to sleep by the sink in the bathroom. Since he had diabetes and failing kidneys, I used to leave the tap running a bit for him. He would wake up, drink, then doze off to wherever fur-buddies go. He always slept on one side of the sink. There were lights on both sides of the mirror over the sink. The spot where he used to sleep is still warm if you hold your hand about six inches above it. There are no pipes under there, and if it was from the lights, the other side of the sink would have the same warmth, which it doesn't.

I believe his energy is still there. I have asked a few other people to hold their hands there, and they all say that it feels warm.

We also have a ghost living in the house. The first owner was a gent who lived with his partner. He developed stomach cancer, and lost a lot of weight. He went to the hospital and died. The second owner of the house has two kids. He moved into a different house in the area, and he asked us if we had had any encounters with the ghost. He said that his kids saw a thin guy wandering around the house - which leads me to believe that it is the original owner. He also said that he woke up in the master bedroom one night and saw this guy looking at him.

When I was painting the walls in the basement, I had a radio playing. My husband came downstairs, and there was a sharp knocking on the door of the bathroom - there was nobody in the bathroom, nor was there any way that one of the cats had gotten in there. I told my husband to quit fooling around - he was scaring me. He said, "I'm standing right here. Did you see me do anything?" I had to admit that I hadn't.

One other house that we lived in was built in 1912. We were in the process of remodelling it before we moved in. Don (husband) was tearing out the lath and plaster, and was waiting for the drywaller to show up. He had set up his tablesaw in the basement, and heard somebody walking around upstairs. He assumed it was the drywaller, and went upstairs to talk to him. There was nobody there.

Before we moved out of that house, he had to fix some of the wiring upstairs. We had already moved into the second house (the one we are in now), and there was no furniture in there. He was working in the upstairs bathroom, and he heard somebody opening and closing the closet doors. He went out, and there was nobody there. The people we sold the house to said that they had done some research. A soldier came back from WW1 and moved into the house. He lived there until the early 1980s, and died. He died in the house. That might be who it was.

There have been studies done, and they say that people who have had numerous electric shocks are more susceptible to be in tune with the supernatural. Don is an electrician. The only time there is any activity is when he is around. Except for the warmth next to the sink. That I can feel - so our ghostly friend now has a cat to keep him company.

And, no, I am not nuts.

[Kristie]

Wow Deedee was that ever interesting! My hubby works in the same field (ohhhhh creepy)...and he swears that he has seen Kasha more than once. Really, a black shadow could be anything but he seems to think it's Kash bugging him for food! She used to wake him up every morning for breakfast and every time he sees the shadow it's early morning. (or he could just be tired...who knows makes us happy none-the-less!)

Kristie

[deedee]

The guy I dated before Don was also an electrician. He used to work in Heritage Park in Calgary. One of his jobs was to install smoke detectors so that they weren't obvious, in keeping with the historical aspect of the buildings. He was in the Livingston house in the part called Old Town. It was snowing pretty heavily that day, and he was upstairs in the Livingston house doing some wiring. He said that the snow was coming down in big flakes, just like a scene from McCabe and Mrs. Miller, and that it had been snowing all day. There used to be dummies in some of the buildings, dressed in period garb. They removed these eventually because they gave some people the creeps. There were two dummies in the parlour at the Livingston house, one of each sex, representing Sam Livingston and his wife.

Barry said that the house got very cold, and very silent all of a sudden. He heard someone say, "It's time for you to go." He packed up his tools and went downstairs to leave. The two dummies had been moved, and were now looking out the window. He said that the noises from outside (traffic, etc.) returned, and the room seemed to get warmer. When he got outside the house, there were no footprints in the snow leading to the house other than his which were now partially buried.

We were talking to another woman who worked at Heritage Park. They used to put on plays about the people whose houses had been moved in. She was changing in the Livingston House into period clothing in order to read a poem. She said that she felt that she wasn't alone, and that there was rapping upstairs. When she went up, there was nobody there. When she got back, her own clothes had been moved.

Here is a link to the Livingston House. http://www.viewcalgary.com/peter/heritageP...ngston_0255.jpg

The Canmore opera house at Heritage Park is haunted, as is the Prince residence. People have taken photos, and there are mysterious figures in the windows that they didn't notice. Also, someone said that they were walking up the stairs in the Prince House, and they got shoved. There was nobody on the stairs at the time.

If you have ever seen the movie Days of Heaven, the last part of the movie in the town was filmed in Heritage Park, and that is the Prince House in there doubling as the school the girl goes to.