Cuz I sure can't! I just find it pretty incredible. And maybe a little disconcerting.............
So here's the deal.............
We live up here in the Northwest Corner of Ohio (10 minutes from the Michigan line. 1/2 hour from the Indiana line). My Aunt Lydia Smitley died last week. Her funeral was on Monday.
My Aunt Dot lives in Corydon, Indiana, which is right across the border from Louisville. Not even close to us!
Aunt Dot and Aunt Lydia were as tight as any two sisters could ever be. They were only 10 months apart in age. So Aunt Dot came home for the funeral. She left on Tuesday to go back to Corydon. When she got just outside of Corydon, she stopped at a gas station for fuel. She went in to pay. She gave the guy her money and he handed her back her $19.00 in change (I think it was like $21 and she gave him two $20 dollar bills). Anyhow, when she got her change, she noticed that one of them had some writing on it. So she took it out to her to see what it said. Someone had written on it that you should sign this bill with your name and location and then pass it on. Only a few people had signed it. But guess who one of them was! You got it! Lydia Smitley from ourtown, Ohio.
So how likely is it that Aunt Dot, who was grieving the loss of her baby sister, would drive over 5 hours away, stop at a gas station and get change, and in that change would be a dollar bill signed by that baby sister?
Co-incident? I don't know.
Of course, Aunt Dot is taking it as a sign from Aunt Lydia that she's ok where she's at. I don't think I can quite buy that. But on the other hand, it's still kind of freaky.
What do you think?
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I'm one that happens to believe the dead can communicate with the living, so I take it as a sign.
Of course, I know I'm one of the odd in that belief, but I've always believed it. It became more than a belief when I was visited in 1990 by a man who'd died a couple weeks before my visit. The message he gave me for his wife was something they'd spoken about that I never knew...even their kids didn't know.
I believe based on experience that often times when people are dealing with huge crisis in their lives, God often does little things to just remind them that He is still there and is still concerned about them. I can't count the number of times that I have seen a situation like this where God did not take them out of the big trial but performed something that was little (but clearly supernatural) as if to send a message.
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I'm one that happens to believe the dead can communicate with the living, so I take it as a sign.
Of course, I know I'm one of the odd in that belief, but I've always believed it. It became more than a belief when I was visited in 1990 by a man who'd died a couple weeks before my visit. The message he gave me for his wife was something they'd spoken about that I never knew...even their kids didn't know.
So, I believe in it even more since then.
You know, H1, maybe I can buy it. Maybe I CAN agree that A Lyd is getting a message thru to A Dot. I've seen it happen so many times, that it's hard not to believe it.
On the other hand, I struggle with what to do with the scripture where the rich man died and Lazarus died and the rich man wanted God to send Lazarus to tell his brothers about Hell so they wouldn't end up there, but God said no. Does that it mean it NEVER happens? That people never bring messages back?
I honestly don't know. I do know I've had some pretty amazing experiences in this line. But on the other hand................ what does the Bible say?
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You know, H1, maybe I can buy it. Maybe I CAN agree that A Lyd is getting a message thru to A Dot. I've seen it happen so many times, that it's hard not to believe it.
On the other hand, I struggle with what to do with the scripture where the rich man died and Lazarus died and the rich man wanted God to send Lazarus to tell his brothers about Hell so they wouldn't end up there, but God said no. Does that it mean it NEVER happens? That people never bring messages back?
I honestly don't know. I do know I've had some pretty amazing experiences in this line. But on the other hand................ what does the Bible say?
I know that people use that scripture to say that the dead can't communicate with the living, but I don't think that's what the scripture is saying.
But that's just me. I have my own interpretations for every scripture!
I know that people use that scripture to say that the dead can't communicate with the living, but I don't think that's what the scripture is saying.
But that's just me. I have my own interpretations for every scripture!
LOL! How kewl is that! So you can just make them mean what you want? Nice.
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