A.D.C. signs

[orleans]

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.