Wouldn`t it be nice if God has providied a place in heaven for all of our AD husbands and wives to go interduce them selves to each other where they can chat and remember all the good times we have had with them, so they can look down on us , have a good laugh once in awhile and know that they are still loved here on earth and still talked about, my Bob loved to meet new people and would sit and talk for hours, just a thought. Gail
I can just see them getting together and laughing about all the funny things they did during the disease. Things like talking to the guy/woman in the mirror, where they hid stuff to keep us on our toes, the traveling pajamas, and the list goes on.
I'm not religious, although I work at a church. I don't believe in an afterlife, but I could be wrong (a concept that I have only recently embraced). Joyful*'s Earnie and my wife, Vanessa, are both buried in section 1-IIB at Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery, ninty headstones apart. I have wondered if they have run into each other. I'll be there in section 1-IIB someday and i'll find out for sure. I'll try to let you know.
For what it is worth. . . . John Edward (the psychic who talks to dead people) has connected with people who have died of dementia and they report that all their facilties and knowledge are restored in the next life. :-)
The dead people even commonly use John Edward to thank the survivors for the care they were given on earth. Hey, as good a thought as any. . . . gotta believe in something.
I do believe that we can connect with people that have passed over. I love to watch John Edward. I would feel so blessed if I could be so lucky to have my dh visit with me and talk to me when he passes. I do plan to have him cremated and kept near and he knows I will never stop talking to him. May he will just get tired of me talking to him not only when he is alive but once he dies and he will tell me to hush.......lol......that would even make me happy.
DH did not believe that there was any life after death. He thought that when you died that is it. I sometimes think that this belief is part of what is holding him here. If there was nothing after, why would you even want to leave the existence you have no matter how miserable and awful it is?
I don't agree with his belief, it was one of the things that we agreed to diagree on.
I definitely believe in Heaven and I know where DH will go when he leaves here. He told me if he left first, he'd have a cup of coffee ready for me when I got there. I thought that was a pretty sweet thing to say. He's such a dear man!
Mawzy it's so good to see you posting again. I lost my precious little cat, Meeko-but now I have Gracie-a lovely little blue eyed Siamese mix from the Humane Society. How is Noche?
Just yesterday I told my DH when we both get to heaven, I want him to tell me what all this gibberish was about! He cannot complete a simple sentence and over and over I find myself saying "what?" What are you talking about?" "I cannot understand you!" Sometimes I wonder why I even bother, it takes SOOOOOO much effort. Last week I watched an old video tape from 15 yrs ago, it was quite startling to hear him speaking again in a clear understandable manner. To hear his voice like that, it made me so sad. I didn't realize how much I missed it.
dking-I liked your coment that you are now at least considering an aftelife. I urge you to look a little deeper or better still, talk to a Christian at your church about this subjec.. Without that belief, I can't imagine what my life would be like. God loves you, bill
Patt K. I experienced the same thing over the holidays this year. We watch watched a video from 22ish years ago. Sharon was so beautiful and sweet hoding our then 2 year old daughter. She looked into the camera to smile and flash her eyes at me and form across the years she made me weak in the knees. I empathize with you. I quite litereally feel your pain. sorry.
Oh Bill...ditto ditto ditto. I cannot imagine how I would have survived this long without faith that there is a brighter, happier, life filled with love and peace waiting for me 'out there'. DITTO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
My faith has gotten me through the loss of Diane and this horrible disease that has taken my husband from me and left me with a toddler in a 6 foot body. The knowledge that he will be whole again in Heaven is keeping me going...and Diane is there waiting for him.
Jim promised me that he would send me silly signs from Heaven. I was feeling so very alone and empty, Thursday when I suddenly dropped some of my salad onto my shirt. I never drop my food, Jim has always dropped his. I took this as a fresh little sign from my wise guy. There have been several little things like this happenning. I chose to believe that he is looking out for me. It comforts me.