JFF-Do you believe...

mamaholmes2010

That spirits (or ghosts) of people in your family watch over you/are present in your life?

I do.  My mom's mother passed away when I was 12.  She and I were extremely close and she used to watch me all the time when my mom was working.  Before I found out I was KU I had a dream that she was handing me a baby in a blue blanket and smiling telling me how perfect he was.  When I was pg, just before I started my labor I walked up the stairs past the nursery and the rocker was rocking as if some one was sitting in it.  A couple of nights ago I was nursing O at 3am and out of no where his mobile started up...I also get the feeling that O can see/sense her presence because every so often he will look over my shoulder at nothing and smile. 

It makes me happy to think that my grandmother is still a part of our lives.

--halo--

I have a fairly UO on this topic.  I believe in God, angels, the devil and demons.  I believe that when you die you are basically asleep until the 2nd coming of Christ.  Your energy may go back to God, but you and your consciousness do not.  At the 2nd coming Jesus returns your energy, your life.

I've always believed that you have a guardian angel assigned to watch over you when you are a child and who will continue to guard you as an adult if you request it.  I also believe that the devil has assigned demons to the same task. So from my perspective, I believe that when people see 'ghosts' they are actually demons taking the form of a loved one to try to influence your decisions.  

To some this will sound BSC, but it's what I believe and what makes sense to me.   

bosha711

I could only hope so! Some of you may remember that my father got diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in my 3rd tri & died less than a month before DS was born.

I pray that my dad is watching over DS, and all his grandchildren, for that matter.

Also, we've lived in our house for almost a year & MH & I believe we are not alone here! When I took pics of MH painting the nursery, there were 2 orbs around him. Recently, when I went to tend to DS when he was crying in the middle of the night, one of his toys sitting in the middle of the floor was playing all by itself! The power switch was set to on, but it's one of those toys that shuts off by itself after a while of inactivity. It is not noise or motion activated. Why were all the lights flashing on it when I went into the nursery?! I was officially spooked!

mamaholmes2010

bosha711:

I could only hope so! Some of you may remember that my father got diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in my 3rd tri & died less than a month before DS was born.

I pray that my dad is watching over DS, and all his grandchildren, for that matter.

Also, we've lived in our house for almost a year & MH & I believe we are not alone here! When I took pics of MH painting the nursery, there were 2 orbs around him. Recently, when I went to tend to DS when he was crying in the middle of the night, one of his toys sitting in the middle of the floor was playing all by itself! The power switch was set to on, but it's one of those toys that shuts off by itself after a while of inactivity. It is not noise or motion activated. Why were all the lights flashing on it when I went into the nursery?! I was officially spooked!

I am so sorry about your Dad...I am sure he is watching you be such a good mom to A and is beaming with pride!!!

In our wedding pictures (I was 19 weeks KU) there is a light orb around me...no one else in the pictures but every.single.one looks like I am glowing!

EVM1216

I don't know, but some really weird things happened the week that my grandpa died.  Forexample a music box that he'd given his sister that hadn't been wound for decades started to play, my broken cuckoo clock started to tick and cuckoo all on its own, my cousin's motion activated toy went off all on its own with no one in the room (the same thing happened to me the day of my highschool graduation- I had a pig that said "I love you" that went off after I'd left the room.)  And, as soon as my grandpa died it started to snow.  It snowed so much school's closed for 2 days, so I didn't have to miss school for his funeral.  Whether or not these are weird coincidents I like to think that it was grandpa saying goodbye.

xxbabycakesxx

oooh you guys are giving me goosebumps!

i do believe in ghosts but i never really thought about if these spirits are of family members that have passed.  it really scares me to think about it, even though it can be comforting to some people (which is totally fine too).

DH was telling me how the mobile started up all of a sudden in the middle of a night feeding so he punched it and it stopped lol.  i would've cried and hid under the covers.  sometimes griff smiles at the walls or the dogs bark at nothing and that scares me too. 

bosha711

mamaholmes2010:

bosha711:

I could only hope so! Some of you may remember that my father got diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in my 3rd tri & died less than a month before DS was born.

I pray that my dad is watching over DS, and all his grandchildren, for that matter.

Also, we've lived in our house for almost a year & MH & I believe we are not alone here! When I took pics of MH painting the nursery, there were 2 orbs around him. Recently, when I went to tend to DS when he was crying in the middle of the night, one of his toys sitting in the middle of the floor was playing all by itself! The power switch was set to on, but it's one of those toys that shuts off by itself after a while of inactivity. It is not noise or motion activated. Why were all the lights flashing on it when I went into the nursery?! I was officially spooked!

I am so sorry about your Dad...I am sure he is watching you be such a good mom to A and is beaming with pride!!!

In our wedding pictures (I was 19 weeks KU) there is a light orb around me...no one else in the pictures but every.single.one looks like I am glowing!

Thank you! 

That is freaky about your wedding pics!

missliz01

I don't believe in God, so I'm not really sure if/how that should influence my feelings about ghosts and spirits. I'm not even sure if the two go hand in hand. I know I love reading and hearing about supernatural happenings and I am really interested in the work Lisa Williams does. I've just never had anything like that happen to me personally even though I've lost a couple of people I was really close with. So I think I'm still undecided. I loved reading about some of the experiences you ladies have had though.

bosha711

missliz01:

I don't believe in God, so I'm not really sure if/how that should influence my feelings about ghosts and spirits. I'm not even sure if the two go hand in hand. I know I love reading and hearing about supernatural happenings and I am really interested in the work Lisa Williams does. I've just never had anything like that happen to me personally even though I've lost a couple of people I was really close with. So I think I'm still undecided. I loved reading about some of the experiences you ladies have had though.

I'm not out to convince anyone, but I will say that if I didn't believe in God before my dad's passing, I would have become a believer by the end. He lost his eyesight after his surgery. I asked him if he saw dark or light & said he saw light. He would turn inward as he became less & less responsive to the outside world. He would be muttering, but he wasn't talking to us at his bedside. He would stare off & look around, but again, not at anyone who was living!

My sister asked him at one point what he saw & he replied, "I see God". He also told my mom that Jacob was ringing the bell for him to come. My mom told him, "Well you tell Jacob to go ring that bell someplace else!!" Another time he told me, "They are pulling me up...like on a swing". He was definitely between two worlds at the end. Despite the sadness & grief, it was an "awesome" experience, by the true meaning of the word.

missliz01

bosha711:

missliz01:

I don't believe in God, so I'm not really sure if/how that should influence my feelings about ghosts and spirits. I'm not even sure if the two go hand in hand. I know I love reading and hearing about supernatural happenings and I am really interested in the work Lisa Williams does. I've just never had anything like that happen to me personally even though I've lost a couple of people I was really close with. So I think I'm still undecided. I loved reading about some of the experiences you ladies have had though.

I'm not out to convince anyone, but I will say that if I didn't believe in God before my dad's passing, I would have become a believer by the end. He lost his eyesight after his surgery. I asked him if he saw dark or light & said he saw light. He would turn inward as he became less & less responsive to the outside world. He would be muttering, but he wasn't talking to us at his bedside. He would stare off & look around, but again, not at anyone who was living!

My sister asked him at one point what he saw & he replied, "I see God". He also told my mom that Jacob was ringing the bell for him to come. My mom told him, "Well you tell Jacob to go ring that bell someplace else!!" Another time he told me, "They are pulling me up...like on a swing". He was definitely between two worlds at the end. Despite the sadness & grief, it was an "awesome" experience, by the true meaning of the word.

Thanks for a great response! I appreciate what you wrote. I'm also sorry about your dad, but it's nice to hear that his last moments seemed like peaceful ones.