No they won’t. My son died last year. I knew he was dead when his three-year-old self came to me at night and said, “I love you, Mommy.” And then continued on his way.
As the Beatles sang decades ago, “Life goes on within you and without you.”
*HUGS*
My late best friend (of 25 or so years) passed, and had no idea. He came to me one night, and I had to tell him. Then, he came to me later to tell me “that he’d made it”.
NO parent should ever outlive a child. It’s just so bad.
I feel your pain. It was last year my daughter died unexpectedly of SIDS.
This analogy has helped me in my faith and grief. Hopefully, it will bring some peace to you and others that are hurting as well. It was something that just randomly came to me when I was debating the existence of God and why God would let such tragedy happen in this world with a friend who was an atheist at the time. I was reminded of my words when my daughter passed...
“When you drive a toddler for an errand, imagine they drop their favorite toy. They scream and cry and act like it is the end of the world. Meanwhile, you are driving and telling them
“CHILL DUDE. WE WILL BE HOME IN 5 MINUTES!!!”
But they continue to cry the whole way back home. The problem is for a toddler 5 minutes is a lifetime. They don’t yet have the perspective of 30,40,50, 90 years.
When we lose someone so special, when God doesn’t answer our prayer, when we feel things are so unfair: we cry, beg, become get frustrated, sad, and/or angry with God.
BUT... just as the toddler does not have the perspective of this world, in the same way 5 minutes seems like forever to them... We lack the perspective of eternity. We cannot yet comprehend how short this life is.
So while we scream, cry, and beg; God is in that driver’s seat saying ....
“CHILL DUDE, YOU WILL BE HOME IN LIKE 5 MINUTES”!
❤️❤️❤️
I know of several things like you wrote. No need to tell the story but life goes on, and the recently deceased often send a “signal”.