rodeosweetheart
10-27-14, 11:04pm
I had an odd experience the other day. I was driving with my husband and talking about a show I saw when I was in North Carolina last month on vacation (we don't have cable.) It was called Long Island medium, maybe you have seen it. Anyway, I was explaining how she would get these messages and give them to the living, from the dead, and how they were very detailed. I said it was neat and made me feel encouraged, to think that our loved ones are there watching out for us.
So I started talking about my dad and his end stage of life issues, how unhappy he is, and said I hoped there was indeed life after death. I said that I was kind of mad at my uncle, who had loved my dad and taken wonderful care of him all throughout their childhood, and had died in WWII, and the whole family kind of fell apart. No one was ever the same. I said, "Why can't he come and help my dad, tell him they are going to be together, comfort him, so that he is not afraid of dying." I said that if it was on the Long Island medium, she would get some message from him, so very detailed ,message that no one else would know. I gave an example of some lady who died and was still laughing and complaining about an unflattering picture taken at a barbecue. I said it was that level of detail that she would know, and all the people were in tears when they heard the details from their loved ones, things no one else would have known.
So I said, "If she met my dad, and my uncle were there, she would give him some really detailed message, something no one else knew. I said it would probably be like this--,my granddad and uncle and dad used to sing "The Road the Mandalay" when they were kids growing up. I said if my uncle were there, on the other side, to tell us that it was really true, and really him, he'd mention "The Road to Mandalay." And then we'd know.
So that was at about 6 pm, driving home. Two hours later, we turned on the movie I had ordered from Netflix. It was called Salvation, and it had Pierce Brosnan and Greg Kinnear--it was a comedy, but kind of a religious parable, and it kind of was about salvation, with the one very flawed character asking the other if he was going to 'heaven, and the Greg Kinnear character forgiving him, and saying, "of course you are"- you'd have to see it, it was subtle.
But this was the thing. At 8:00, we turned the movie on. And it started with a tiger moving across the scene, and it was the company logo, and it was called "Mandalay Productions."
What do y'all think?
So I started talking about my dad and his end stage of life issues, how unhappy he is, and said I hoped there was indeed life after death. I said that I was kind of mad at my uncle, who had loved my dad and taken wonderful care of him all throughout their childhood, and had died in WWII, and the whole family kind of fell apart. No one was ever the same. I said, "Why can't he come and help my dad, tell him they are going to be together, comfort him, so that he is not afraid of dying." I said that if it was on the Long Island medium, she would get some message from him, so very detailed ,message that no one else would know. I gave an example of some lady who died and was still laughing and complaining about an unflattering picture taken at a barbecue. I said it was that level of detail that she would know, and all the people were in tears when they heard the details from their loved ones, things no one else would have known.
So I said, "If she met my dad, and my uncle were there, she would give him some really detailed message, something no one else knew. I said it would probably be like this--,my granddad and uncle and dad used to sing "The Road the Mandalay" when they were kids growing up. I said if my uncle were there, on the other side, to tell us that it was really true, and really him, he'd mention "The Road to Mandalay." And then we'd know.
So that was at about 6 pm, driving home. Two hours later, we turned on the movie I had ordered from Netflix. It was called Salvation, and it had Pierce Brosnan and Greg Kinnear--it was a comedy, but kind of a religious parable, and it kind of was about salvation, with the one very flawed character asking the other if he was going to 'heaven, and the Greg Kinnear character forgiving him, and saying, "of course you are"- you'd have to see it, it was subtle.
But this was the thing. At 8:00, we turned the movie on. And it started with a tiger moving across the scene, and it was the company logo, and it was called "Mandalay Productions."
What do y'all think?