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[susan_wu]

Hello,

Have you ever been affected by any experience?
did you have special experience or speial mind about life?
what do you always recall in your dream?
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Friends, would you like to share your most impression experience with us?
Please open your heart and let us share your gladness, sadness, moving, exciting.............

enjoy your life everyday!

[sunking814]

Susan_wu,

My father died in January of 1993. My father was a good man and I loved him very much.

In December of that same year, I was sitting in a rocking chair on the front porch of my home. It was a week or so before we celebrated Christmas, the weather was cold (about 40* F), the moon was full and the stars we're shining. We had decorated the outside of the house with beautiful colored lights...reds, greens, blues, whites. There were also lights in the bushes and trees. (Yes, we tend to use a lot of electricity in December!) I was smoking a pipe and enjoying the "feel" of Christmas.

I began to think of my father, and all the Christmases past. I thought of the old house in Ohio were my Grandparents lived, where we always gathered to celebrate Christmas. Many members of the family would be there, some that we may not have seen since last Christmas! There would be ham and turkey, sweet potato casserole, buttered peas, mashed potatoes, cranberry sauce, and oooh the pies and cakes...pumpkin pie, apple pie, mincemeat pie, butterscotch pie and chocolate pie, chocolate cake, Red Velvet cake, pineapple upsidedown cake, coconut cake...oh susan, it was quite unbelievable, a veritable Christmas feast! (Yes, there were some fat people in my family! hahaha)

But most of all I rememberd sitting around the big table (I now have that table in my home in Florida!) with the people I loved, the laughter, the warmth, the happiness we felt at those times. It's a wonderful thing that not everyone on this earth gets to experience...love, warmth and plenty.

So as I sat in the cold, puffing my pipe, I thought of those people and those times and began to cry, and through my tears I said out loud "Dad, I love you and miss you so much and I hope that wherever you are that you are allright. And you, too Grandma and Grandpa...I miss all of you very much and wish we were together again".

As I said this, the wind began to blow. At the roofine, to my right, there was a Christmas flag on a flagpole, that sat above two spotights. The flag began to whip around in the wind, that steadily increased in strength. I looked up and as I did, the spotlights came on! This was astonishing, because a few days prior, these lights were not working...the light bulbs needed to be replaced. I stood up to look thru the front door window to see who had turned the lightswitch on...but nobody was there! I stepped into the house and called to my wife to inquire if she had flipped the switch, but she had not!! I flipped the switch on, then back off, then on again...the lights no longer worked.

I sat back down in my chair, the hairs on the back of my neck standing on end. The wind had calmed. The light no longer burned. But I knew what had happened...I had been visited by the spirit of my father... and he had somehow communicated to me with the flag and the lights. I cried "Thank You, Father, I am so glad you are here with me...you knew I needed you this night, this beautifully clear and cold winter night...and I will always Love you!".

I have never forgotten that experience, it is one of my most cherished experiences and it pleases me to share it with you...

[susan_wu]

Hi, sunking814,

I was moved deeply by your affecting story!

All mystical thing that had happened with u only can be explained by one word: LOVE!

I'm sure that the flag will increase, the sportlight will come on, whenever you are missing your father. With love in your heart, you can communicate with your farther at anytime and anywhere!

It's my pleasure to share such an affecting story with you!

My Heartiest Wishes To You!

God Bless You!

[sunking814]

I am very glad you enjoyed it, Susan. Thank you for responding.

I no longer live at that house, but we'll see what happens here i my new home in a new town. I'll keep in touch here!

Have a great day!