Being a born again Christ follower, my father said “I’m going home”.....that was more reassuring for me than you’ll ever know.
When hospice sent mom home, during a lucid moment, she told us Jesus said he was taking her home on her birthday. I lied for two days after her date, finally we told her, today is your birthday. She passed a few hours later.
For a couple days before Mom died at home in 2024, she would have long clear conversations with her sister who had died in 2019. My brother’s family lived with her at the homestead.
Our nephews told us that Mom would say variations of, “No, Lucy. You can’t come here; I have to go there!” “I forgive you.” (We think that had to do with my aunt totaling Mom’s car when she was 90.) She was quite talkative for those few days. Nobody knows exactly what her last words were.
My mom’s final sound was a gasp of utter joy! It’s good on the other side.
A few years ago I had a one time vision I guess you could say and I claim nothing except what I saw and heard.
I saw myself face down at home from a several feet above where my body was. I got the feeling I was a good bit older.
There was a voice that I really can’t describe except that it was soft saying “it’s ok to go”. Then it stopped and I was awake.
Never anything like that ever happened again. I don’t know if there is anything to it or if I had some crazy one off dream. I never forgot it.
Make of it what you will.
At the end of all things, when the sun rises here and turns to blackness down there, the Blessed will say, We have never lived anywhere except Heaven, and the Lost, “We were always in Hell.” And both will speak truly.
~ C.S. Lewis
(The Great Divorce)