A.D.C. signs
after death communications
my mom left this lifetime a couple years ago and it has been extremely difficult for me to deal with her physical absence. but the numerous "signs" she has given me to let me know she is still around is reassuring.
sometimes i get these signs without even asking for them. and sometimes when i ask i get them.
yesterday i got two.
a number of months ago--after asking for a sign from my mother--one of the signs i got was on a license plate. i was on my way to a store, my car started making a horrible metal scraping noise, i pulled off on a side street, walked to the gas station, found an attendant who walked a couple blocks back to my car with me, fixed the problem (no charge!), and i headed to the store--an hour behind schedule. when i was leaving the store there was a bright red car parked in the first space in the parking lot that caught my eye. i glanced at the license plate and the word was an unusual name my daughter called my mother (an unusual name for grandma). if i had gone there on schedule i might have missed seeing that particular car with that unusual plate name.
so yesterday--i was asking my mom for a sign. i go up to the same store and as i walk past the first parking spot--remembering about that red car with that license plate--another red car began to pull into the spot. i glanced at the plate and the word on the plate was an unusual/obscure name/word that i used to call my mom--a nickname for the word "mom". i did a double take and made sure i saw it correctly. i went into the store for five minutes and when i came out the car was gone.
i pulled out onto the street and was musing over this situation. i asked my mom if that was a sign from her. and moments later a car merged in front of me. i looked at the plate and it had a significant word that i've always connected with my mom, one that her and i had not so much as a running joke but as a running theme between us since i was a kid.
anyway--i'm wondering how many others receive signs from loved ones who have passed. i think they are more predominant than a lot of people realize. the signs are there--it's up to us to notice.
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how wonderful she made the connection between his words and the hearts she sees and how wonderful that she is in the right place at the right time to notice them.
i told my daughter this and added that i can't recall ever noticing a heart shaped cloud. my daughter, who always tries to look for the logical explanation first rather than the supernatural/spiritual explanation, replied: "yeah, but you're not looking for hearts--and how often do you look at the clouds?"
i told her that her grandpa frequently commented on the cloud formations and when i'm out and about i have a tendency to notice them and think of my dad (sometimes thinking "he would love seeing this."
and i don't recall noticing a heart shaped cloud. ever.
sometimes i think those who have passed simply whisper in our ear to get us to turn our head and look and notice. what i mean is that i don't think your brother actually made the cloud form a shape like a heart--instead, i think he compelled his daughter to look up and notice it when she did--thereby making the connection.
what a lovely thing for him to say to her--what a perfect symbol for him to have left her with.
Alta May!!! I sprinkled her ashes into one of my flower beds So I could tend her and keep her close to me.
Anyways Every time there is poison Ivy hiding in the flower bed My grandma warns me in a dream.
I dream I'm either with her or in her house when a rodent either Jumps out at me or runs over my hands! EVERY TIME 
I LOVE My GRANDMA!!!! And she is still watching over me! I'm very sensitive to Poison Ivy.
And Like in life she is always right.
I'm so happy for you, Orleans. And especially so after reading this last post, to which I am also responding.
Of course your mother and you would find each other!
I think it's our acculturation that tells us this is an unusual experience. In fact, I think our loved ones are around us all the time.
I base this on a couple things, one of which is my own personal experience and the other is watching the show "Long Island Medium."
I have had experiences with nearly everyone who is close to me or to close to my friends. I don't even doubt that it will happen; it's more a question of when. For example, a dear friend of mine has had two dogs cross over in the last few years. Now she's as psychic as I am and wouldn't you think the dogs would get in touch with her? No, for some reason they get in touch with me and I pass along the message.
On Long Island Medium, it becomes apparent that they are searching as hard for a way to reach us as we are searching for a means to reach them.
I believe that some day that veil will not exist. I think there are advanced civilizations where they may come and go to that dimension. That ability is way beyond us, however.
Now even on our planet, though, there are cultures that have a worldview that there is an invisible part of the world. They respect it, interact with it, "see" it in their mind's eye. Our culture disdains that, however.
But then, I disdain our culture. So there!
I hope to come back later and post a few of my recent experiences with contacts from loved ones who have crossed over. Right now I have to go to work, however.
Cher
thank you for sharing your experiences.
Right after my father's funeral, my mother and I pulled up in the driveway to our house and there was a bright triple complete rainbow right above our house from horizon to horizon, and we stood there in tears, both knowing that it was him---no question. I have since felt his presence and gone outside to see that there was a rainbow. It has happened numerous times. Just thinking about it makes me cry, I miss him so much
--there doesn't seem to be a good expression for such a thing--
if i said "my condolences on the loss of your father"--that wouldn't be accurate because i don't believe you have lost him except in the physical sense.
i believe those who have "passed on" have "passed on" or "crossed over" to another dimension and they are able to continue to see us/be with us/hear us. i don't believe they miss us at all because they are still around us.
some people pray for their loved ones--i believe we can still talk to them and that they can, and do, hear us. they listen, they watch, they "whisper" to us (even if we don't consciously hear them) and try to help us and communicate messages to us.
i believe they give us signs in order to communicate with us when we ask for them and even when we don't ask. with my mom--for the first number of months--i didn't think to ask for signs--all i could think of was "she's gone, she's gone, she's gone!" i was so bereft. and my mother was probably thinking "i'm still here! pay attention!"
and in my private hysterics one time there was a loud bang on the outside of the house which snapped me out of it. i went outside to see what had hit the side of the house. there was nothing there.
another time i was sobbing and i heard a crash in my daughter's bedroom. my daughter had gone back to college three days before and her door was closed. the sound snapped me out of my hysterical state and i went to investigate, finding a heavy container had fallen off a footstool in her room.
and the first time i sat down to read anything (about five months after my mom "left" i was reading the book "we don't die" when the light flashed on and off at the same time there was a knocking sound on the wall behind the couch--this was done in a pattern of two knocks and then five with the light flashing off and on each time. when i realized i hadn't blown a fuse it occurred to me that the knocking was the reverse of a "signal" we used for each other (the "shave and a haircut--two bits) which my mom and i used to let each other know it was us on the other side of a door. and on the other side of the wall where the knocking came from was my mom's bedroom.
definitely look. and listen. and tell your dad to give you a sign that he's still near.
it's been really hard for me adjusting to my mom's physical absence because we lived together and i miss her in this house, in my day-to-day existence where i could see her.
because of her physical death we were forced to enter into a new phase in our relationship--and i've come to understand that, in spite of her lack of physical presence, our relationship continues and so does our love for each other.
love doesn't die and apparently neither do we--not really. but losing someone from this physical dimension that we are currently in can be the hardest thing in the world. and because of that you have my deepest sympathy.