I believe this is true. Good news.

Didn't know that about Steve Jobs. Years ago at one of my first jobs I worked at a hospital in Chgo that had the first AIDS unit. One day I was eating lunch with someone who worked on that unit who I didn't know along with friends who knew him. He commented, "I'm between both sides" (or something like that). No one else (who knew him well) seemed to question what he said but I didn't know what he was talking about. He said he works on the AIDS unit because it was his job to help people cross over because he was partly in that world too. He went on to say that many people cross over then come back - but those that do almost always die within 6 months. Also said many people believe it is a dream of from meds.

I didn't know what to think. Several mos later I arrived at my parents. My father had many health problems after a bypass and stroke and often out of it mentally. Usually he was depressed and looked mad. This day he had a big smile - something I hadn't seen in a long time. He sat there and said over and over "it was so beautiful - I want to go back." My mother said "he's driving me crazy - he says he visited heaven this morning." I asked him what it was like and all he could say was "it was soo beautiful". He died a few months later.

Our loved ones are in a state of bliss. They can see and hear what is going on here and can help if you ask for their help. Steve Jobs, who was irreligious until his last days, was probably in awe of what he was seeing before he passed to the other side.

I went to a memorial mass today and the priest delivered the most beautiful sermon about the afterlife and how we needn't worry about our loved ones because they have realized their Utopian Dream. I feel so much better hearing that my husband is in a beautiful place and my grief is more about me missing him and
how much he wants me to let go of the grief because he is with
me in spirit. I cried through the whole mass, but I feel so much
peace and I'm going to work towards letting go of the grief while holding on to the beautiful memories of our life together.

I would love to know just some of what they are learning, and finding out - are all the questions answered? I wonder sometimes how it is for them, and are they going to be there for me when it is my turn? G-

I believe it's like Mitch Albom's "The five people you meet in heaven" book. I DO believe that we ARE going to see our loved ones again. I don't know what it's like out there, and it there really are 'pearly gates' and all that, but I really want to belive that we in fact DO go on after this life. I have had signs that Greg is sround, and that gives me comfort. my logfical side says perhaps it's my mind playing tricks on me, but my spiritual side says hes always here. I go with the spiritual side!!! :-)

HUGS and thanks for the post

Diane

I'm a believer. Can't wait to see it myself and be with my husband and other family who have gone on before me. :)

I am still not sure what happens. However I have been with 3 people when they passed. First was my father-in-law. He told my husband that " I saw mom and grandpa today. The came to tell me they will be waiting for me". (both had been dead for several years). Second was my dad, and this is still so fresh in my head, the night before he died ( he was in palliative care and in a coma) my sister, brother, and I who'd btw were all in different places saw him standing behind us and well he did not speak we felt him smile and say good by. Third my husband several days before he died kept talking to someone in the room telling them he did not want to go just yet. So I don't know, but these 3 people were all very different and yet all had some sort of experience.

A dear friend of ours died two years before Jim and in the last days before she passed (the cancer beast took her too) she kept telling her husband that there were angels in her room along with her parents and that they were waiting for her. My Jim was in a coma but he did open his eyes at the very end. I believe it was to take a last look at his loved ones here before he met his loved ones again in the beyond. There is great comfort in the belief that there something wonderful beyond death.

I worked at a hospital for years. One day, I was in a bad accident before going in to work. I refused medical attention....no cuts, just bruises....and besides, I had things I had to do. Later that day, I was sitting at work, talking with a doctor friend, when I suddenly started feeling very "out of it." Long story short, I saw him from above me, picking me up, running with me to the ER, screaming that my heart had stopped. Then I heard beautiful voices singing, heavenly voices, passed by many whom I had known, saw a light, and was slammed back into "life" in the ER. It was all so beautiful, so peaceful, so FULL of love, I didn't want to come back! I truly believe....and am so thankful I caught that glimpse. I had believed before then.....but since then, I've been certain!

Right before my Jim passed at home I walked into the room and he was talking to someone. He said it was Shannon our youngest daughter and he pointed above my head. I told him I would call her so he could talk to her. It was her birthday the day he passed. He also appeared to her at her house sitting at the kitchen table. It's right by the patio door and she was letting her two dogs out. She was outside and the door locked and their old patio door does not lock she turned around and there was Jim sitting at the table. Then the door unlocked and Jim was gone. She was so hesitant to tell me this lest I think she was crazy. Of course I don't. I do believe in a life hereafter and one that is filled with love and joy. Hugs

My son had an open eyed vision of heaven one night...this was about a year before we knew Mike was so sick...one of his girlfriend's fathers passed away and he was trying to comfort his girlfriend. So he started praying over her...he asked that the gates of heaven be opened for this man who he didn't even know....
well, I got a phone call at 1 in the morning with my son lauging and crying at the same time and he just kept saying 'mom, it's so beautiful it's so beautiful"....and I said "what are you talking about?" (remember it's one in the morning!)...and he related his story to me...that he prayed "like you pray, mom "....that the gates of heaven be opened...and that's when he saw a man walk toward the gates (which, BTW WERE pearls)....then he saw the man turn around his head and then look back and continue on through the gates.
To this day, I believe that God gave my son that vision to prepare him for his father's death. He never saw a face on this man...and I believe that was God's way to let Justin know how beautiful heaven is and that his dad would be okay.
My niece (who regularly hears from God...she is autistic)....heard God speak to her on the day of Mike's memorial service...she was a bit upset and went to be by herself and asked God why Mike had to die...and she heard Him say "Kelsi, you know that mike is with me now"...then she felt Jesus come and take her in His arms and dance with her!!! Yes, I believe too.
Yay, God.

Yes, I believe your husband is having a ball also. I know my husband is too. The day before my mom passed in 2006, I was laying in the bed at the nursing home with her. I asked her if she ever wondered what God looked like? She said "no one has ever seen Him, but He is here.

I went home and in the middle of the night I prayed and relinquished her to the Lord, that was the hardest thing I ever did up to that point. I got a call from the nursing home the next morning and she took a turn for the worse, I was there in 10 minuets she had already passed away. They told me they put her oxygen level up to 4 in the middle of the night. When I go there they told me she wanted to go to bathroom and saw she was going, got her back in bed and she took a couple of breaths and passed away.

When I went to view her body the day before the viewing and funeral The Lord Blessed me. She looked so beautiful, I knew that she was with The Lord. I had so much joy I did not want it to stop. The joy that The Lord gives there are no words to express.

When my husband passed, I took care of him his last week of life for he refused hospice. I got to be with him as he was taking his last three breaths and sang "Swing Low Sweet Chariot" to him.

I miss him so very much! But I know I will see him again as you will see your husband again. Knowing that our loved ones are in heaven helps us to keep going on here. The last day he was alive, he looked up at the ceiling as if he was looking at someone and kept staring up, I believe The Lord was there or His angels. Home did not speak for his last 2 days, just moaned when he was being moved when he was being washed and moved and changed.

Blessings,
recentwidow

Bob passed over several times before he died and he said that on a few occasions that he saw people, on another occasion he felt very peaceful and didn't realize that he had died until "the lights went back on" and he was back in his bed. He did have one experience when he was scared but I think he hadn't really passed and it was the drugs. After the "lights" episode, he was no longer afraid to die.

My aunt died a few months ago and she had "passed" a few months before that. She said that she saw her husband, her daughter and her sister. She said it was very lovely and that she did not want to come back. She fought it but the nurse kept yelling at her "Barbara come back, come back" and she came back. She was pissed. She made us all promise that we would let her go if she got her chance again. On the day she died, she simply took her oxygen hose off, fell asleep and left.

Grace