i had a couple of dreams happen over the past few days regarding my grandfather.
you know – i never considered myself to be a very spiritual person – at least in my own mind. i used to go to a baptist church when i was really young – and really only because my neighbors went there and they asked me to come with them – and i was friends with one of the kids. growing up – i have really lost faith in religion when you see all of these scandals, and televangelists (sp?) on tv saying anything to get you to send them money. some of these people just seem so franchised and fake that it makes me sick.
well in the past few years – i have decided to get more in touch with myself on a spiritual level – and determined to find the answers to my own question. not the answers that one organized faith has per say, but finding things out for myself on a personal experience.
i will also have to admit that i am quite skeptical with the unknown and the other side a lot – more so with mediums and psychics. one of the psychics i talked to the other day told me that it is very common to be skeptical of things that happen to other people because they never happened to you.
well i think i just got my first glimpse of what is to come. yes my dream will be included in this story – but im trying to give you the full picture of what took place.
since going onto blogtalkradio.com and going to some of these shows with free readings by some of these psychics and mediums, i have been quite intrigued with how things worked out. i got a reading from someone a couple of months ago that really didn’t make me quite pleased. i called in to ask a specific question about spirit guides – and they jolted me into the territory of my health – and they were so stuck on my apparent health issues. i was kind of upset that they didn’t answer my question directly and said to myself im never coming to this show again. but at the same time – my intuition was saying “they are right you know…” when it came to my health and me being cooped up in the house all the time.
well thursday or friday night i believe it was i went on two different psychic shows. i was quite impressed with how the first show was handling the calls and she was very informative with people, so I decided to call in and give it a shot. so I asked about my finances and my career and trying to get some guidance on what I should go forth with. she told me that I will be doing something as far as setting up my own business and it is something related with music. this totally threw me off…as much as I would like to have my own business and i love music – i could not see how this is all connected.
then i started to ask about anyone in the family that is around me – and she immediately brought up my grandfather. my grandpa tom was really my only grandfather that i got to spend some time with when i was little. this would be my father’s father. she told me that he said he is always around me and is giving me support in whatever i decide to do with my life. to be honest – it was a very comforting feeling because i always felt that my grandpa gave me a sense of security and strength.
and then the lady said she is seeing a bunch of t’s around him – which he has 2 daughters he adopted (my 2 aunts toni and traci) and he said he was very very worried about one of them which one of my aunts is on dialysis from bad kidneys…she mentioned that my aunt is going to have this problem for a very long time if not for the rest of her life. i haven’t been very close to this aunt because she has a tendency to lie a lot about things and it really bothers me, and sometimes i feel like she takes advantage of me whenever she wants to go do things and i end up paying for it. as soon as i can get a job again – i am determined to go do things with her.
so that was my first reading (im saving some parts out because they are quite personal)
then i had the second reading – and this was the same show that i went to a couple of months ago where i wasn’t very happy with them. again – i called in to ask about some dreams i have been having – and maybe they can help me out on what it means. before i even got to ask that question – they started asking me a bunch of random questions like last time and im thinking “oh here we go again.” but they did bring up the fact that i need to get out more and be social.
but they immediately brought up someone else in the family who died very young in a car accident…which is my uncle mike (or uncle mikey is what i called him)…he was actually born a few years ahead of me so we weren’t that far apart in age. again – i’ll admit that i did not spend enough time with my little uncle as i wanted to – only really got to see him once a year. the last time i saw him before he passed was in the summer – and all i can remember is that he kept asking me if i would come over some time and hang out with him. but i never did. the psychics told me on the show that he is around me very much as well and he’s very energetic and trying to help me get out there and have some fun. that kid was so damn hyperactive so it made total sense to me that he’s probably running around me in circles. god i miss him…
so i thought i was skeptic about psychic readings? the other lady (there are 2 ladies on this show) asked me what am I doing with the yard. my jaw dropped to the floor. i decided this year (since im living at my mom’s house) that we were going to start landscaping the yard. i’ve been digging up some new spots in the yard and putting some plants in there – and i just got the woodchip mulch in today actually. i couldn’t believe that they would know that…but they did mention that my uncle mike was watching me doing this. i really just couldn’t believe that. so my skepticism has been greatly diminished just by that alone.
then they told me that i should look into being a landscape designer because i could make something great even with just a huge vacant lot. and i thought wow – i’ve always wanted to try something like that, but i’m so scared to taking that risk of what if i waste my money and find out im not really that great at landscaping yards. but i think just from that push alone – i am more than determined to take the risk and finally do something with myself.
so now for the actual part of this – the dreams:
i mentioned this on the last show i was on with the psychics that i had this dream with my aunt (who has the kidney disease) that she was laying down in a bed or a chaise – couldn’t tell — and my grandpa tom was there holding her hand – and there was this huge aura of white light just surrounding us. I don’t know if they could see me there watching them – but i heard grandpa tom whisper to her that she is going to be alright. but i was wondering where my step grandmother was – she just died last year i think – or a couple years ago – it was around nov-dec 2006 i think. but im surprised that i did not see her – she used to take care of me when i was little.
so there’s that dream…
then tonight – after doing all my landscaping today with my mom – i was so tired form the lack of sleep the other night and passed out for about 4 hours. im really kicking myself for writing this sooner because i don’t remember what exactly was said – but i saw my grandpa tom again – he was sitting with me in some sort of room and there was someone else there that i don’t remember – but we were talking about some sort of object and all of a sudden i looked over and my grandpa made a comment about some object i was holding – BUT I CANT REMEMBER UGH…
so all in all that’s what i had to share – but the most important thing that i wanted to share out of all of this is that i have never had a dream (that i remembered) of my grandpa tom after he died in 1992. i really wish he would come into my dreams more often so i can actually talk to him – there’s so much that i want to say – but maybe he already knows what i’m going to say.
we actually still have a plant from my grandpa’s funeral – i think it’s a pot sort of plant – and this baby has grown over the years. mom almost killed it because she’s a plant killer (inside joke, she’s not really anymore though) but we still have it in the same pot and it is just a gorgeous plant – i wish i knew what kind it was. big round oval leaves and big stems. it gets bigger every year…and every time i look at it i think of him. when mom doesn’t want the plant anymore – i am definitely going to keep it for the rest of my life.