Gramma

Just wanted to share with you all something so profound....it was my gramma who passed, today was her burial...

During the New Year holiday, I went to visit my dad and family in Baltimore, MD. A day before we left...we were going to the nursing home to see gramma....(she suffered from Alzheimer's and had lost all faculties some 6 years back, could not feed herself, walk, talk, or anything else).... I got a flash of my gramma on the way there and I heard the words Anna Maria... (pronounced with long vowel sound)... over and over... (her name was Aura Maria).... I asked my dad a few times, who Anna Maria was and he did not know.... (this began 3 months ago back in December 2001, she passed a week from this Thurs..).

Last week Wednesday my dad arrived because we flew her back here to FL for her funeral services...again I heard the words Anna Maria whenever I got a flash of my grandmother's face... and again I asked my father who this person was....he still did not know but when he began to speak and tell me he did not know, I immediately got a flash of a musical note and a record playing and I told him that I thought it was possibly a song called Anna Maria....my father is open to the communication and as a matter of fact HE COMMUNICATES!!!!!

He just recently told me that he has never spoken a word of it to anyone either because he does not want to take the position of defending what he knows and that it takes too much energy to communicate, all of his resources of energy are directed to his business and family!!!!!!!!

At any rate... the following day me and my sister were driving and I told her that I kept getting the name Anna Maria every time I thought of gramma and then recently I got a flash of a musical note but did not know what this meant. My sister was astonished because I did not know, and my dad did not get the fact that gramma loved opera, loved Pavaratti and loved the song Ava Maria by Pavaratti. Gramma began speaking to me the moment my sister spoke the words Ava Maria !!!!!!!!

Gramma began to tell me how at 9 p.m. after the final viewing and most of all had left and it would be only family there she wanted us to all join in a circle with hands held, directed up towards the ceiling while this song played...she wanted healing in her family!!!!!!! (there is division, animosity, resentment, etc.)

She began to tell me:

that while we were all holding hands and this song was playing the angels would be above us encircling us and Jesus would be in the middle of them pouring out His healing love all over our family!!!! That the brokenness in each of us would begin to be healed and each of us individually, would begin accepting God's Light and Love into our hearts and that every one of us would begin that ultimate personal relationship with Jesus (for those that did not already have that) that the resentments and anger would be laid down, enough to realize the love within our family unit as a whole, that the most important riches in life we can ever possess is that of our family and the message we leave behind, instilling values and morals as we go- learning to love one another unconditionally