He came to me as a voice in my ear. It was just a voice, not
a dream. There was no story or context. Just a voice. Tell Judy I love her.
Fourteen months after we moved to Colorado, our next door
neighbor passed away quite suddenly. He was the person I chatted with early in
the morning. The one person I could say more than a passing hello to. Norm had
strong opinions about things that he thought were divisive, and tore people
apart.
He spent most of his days in his yard, trimming, mowing,
planting. He pointed out that one of our bushes was more like a weed than
anything and was crowding out a more desirable bush. It should come out. I cut
it back to the ground, but never got around to digging it out. It grew back. One morning
I returned from my walk to find Norm digging out the offending bush. I grabbed
my shovel and started working with him. We dug and pulled and dug and pulled
for a good hour before the bush surrendered to our efforts.
When he wasn't working in his yard, he was biking. For his
80th birthday, he biked 82 miles in the mountains. I was amazed by his
strength.
Then he was gone. His widow, Judy, held a lovely memorial
service. There were so many stories about Norm. He befriended people easily.
Why then eight months later was he in my ear? When I was fully
awake, I knew I had to share this with Judy. I went next door only to find she
was out of town for several days.
I waited anxiously for her return. I had a message for her.
When I finally had the chance to share the message, I told
her Norm did not say to tell her he loved her. No. He said, "Tell Judy I
love her."
She was touched by the message. She said she believed that
some people were conduits from the other side. I told her I had had a few experiences
such as this, but this my first message. We chatted more about it when she said
tearfully that Norm had passed so suddenly that he hadn't told her he loved her
at the end. She felt badly about it.
I replied that he must have regretted it, too.
Tell Judy I love her.
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