He's 'Looking Down on You'

I am a Christian, no I'm not perfect by a long stretch. I believe God sent His Son so that we can have eternal life after we 'die' . My mother died when she was 53 and it will be wonderful when I see her again likewise my second husband, the only thing that kept me 'on track' when he first died was knowing he would be waiting for me. My first husband well I forgave him so wouldn't mind seeing him again in passing. If you have faith then like me there's no death just a passing to something better. No black nothing in front of you but a hope for the future. If you have no faith well that's your prerogative also. I talk to my late husband, laugh with him and scream sometimes. I used to say to my mother well you told me husband's are always right well they're not. How do people manage who don't believe in an after life who can't talk to loved ones. For the record I also believe in hell if people just died they wouldn't be punished if they thought they'd got away with it here. As far as I'm concerned they'll be in for a shock!

specki4eyes

Have you noticed that there are thousands of dead people hovering over the thatched roof of The Repair Shop?

Very funny!

My dad had said he didn’t want slow funeral music at his funeral - he wanted The Flight of the Bumble Bee. So this was duly played. When we went outside to view the flowers and messages there was the biggest, fattest bumble bee buzzing around the flowers. It certainly made us think. I still like to think he was pleased we had remembered..

I talk to my mum quietly when I'm in the garden. If any of the family have problems I ask her to help if she can. Have never seen visions of anyone who has died. Never heard my mum answer me either. I'm on the fence with this not sure either way.
On a lighter note I kept hearing noises in our kitchen late at night. Thought it must be the radiators creaking or the boiler. Realised one night the boiler was turned off. We live opposite a cemetery so I did consider we could be haunted but dismissed that thought. One day OH reached in the cupboard for his packet of cereal bran flakeds and a rat jumped out!!! There was very little cerial left in the packet too. Must have been living under the cabinets for weeks
At least we aren't haunted lolol.

Some people believe there are 'time slips', where the past merges into the present; hence you're an onlooker onto whatever that person is doing.

Regarding the afterlife/ghosts, have any of you noticed that ghosts tend to be seen following the same route, never deviating often for centuries. It's almost like a memory absorbed into the fabric of specific surroundings & particular circumstances, never changing through the decades. When I see my son he is following his previous routes, along the landing or into the the garage. We see a shadow of his form & just say hello to him. 🤔

Livey

I want to say I don’t believe in afterlife- but terrified of saying it, in case I am wrong !
Stupid or what !!

I don't believe in an afterlife. I say it with no hesitation. And I sincerely hope I am not wrong, because that is a terrifying thought

Thankyou for keeping the faith. I just lost my little dog. I pray he knows how much I love him and will forever.

Have you noticed that there are thousands of dead people hovering over the thatched roof of The Repair Shop?

My mother and I were very close, and during difficult moments in my life I hear her voice clearly advising me. I often feel her presence and it brings me comfort to convince myself she is near.

A loved one is in your head, and in your heart.They are always with you.

I definitely believe in the afterlife
I too Could write a book with all that I’ve experienced re loved ones who have left this dimension

Be careful what you say around children as well. When my grandpa on my mums side died I was about 7 if not a bit younger and I remember my mum saying he was looking down on us, it scared the living daylights out of me. I imagined a ghost hovering above me. Would cover my head in bed at night so he couldn’t see me.

I belive its a comfort saying when folk don't know what else to say but I don't believe it at all. I would rather folk just sit with me in the moment and don't say anything, it's what I remember most when I was in the turmoil of complicated grief, the other things just annoyed me.....

Pigeons, magpies and gulls all have white feathers

For a whole year after he died I felt my husband's presence in the house very strongly.He would make himself known by doing familiar things, the television would suddenly come on at News time,( he never missed watching the news), also I go to bed and find the bedside radio switched on, as he would go to sleep listening to it, and I would find the radiator switched on in an empty room.I had two very strong vivid dreams when I saw him as clear as day walking around outside something else he loved to do.
He has been dead nearly five years now and all these things have ceased.I like to think it is a sign that he is firmly settled, wherever he is.

I don’t think anyone is looking down on me but if ever something happens and the outcome would have been negative but I chose a different route which ended well I always say my guardian angel was looking out for me.

Cabbie21

I don’t know how my DH would feel if he is watching me. i have had to get rid of so much of his stuff, things he loved, things he hoarded, things he wouldn’t get rid of ‘ just in case’.

Same here! In fact I have a recurring dream that he didn’t die, it was all a mistake at the hospital, and he comes home and says. “What the F&&k have you done with all my stuff?”

GrandmaKT

The current thread on the use of the word 'passing' (for died) has made me think of a term I hear a lot.
So many times I hear people say "I know my dad/mum will be looking down on me and they will be so proud" etc..
Honest question, does anyone actually believe this? If so, do you believe that relatives who have died are watching you all the time, or at key moments only? I always wonder!

This is one of my pet hates - how do people know that s/he isn't 'looking up'? I don't believe, but if you do, that's fine - as long as you acknowledge that your relative might have gone down, not up..! 😄

Allira

antiquatedanne

My very down to earth, no-nonsense friend has seen a ghost in her house as did the people who lived there previously.
Our friends didn't know when they bought it.

Wow! I'd love to know more. I too had a ghostly experience which I've written about elsewhere & so did my mum who was everso common sense and strong minded so I know the afterlife exists. I don't think it is literally true necessarily, but it is true in some way we can't understand. when I left my abusive ex so many co-incidences happened to help me I'm sure I had celestial help.
This world is very good at finding out things scientifically, but has yet to find things that don't respond to science

They certainly are with us. When this physical meat suit dies our soul goes back home. When we are ‘home’ we are soul/spirit/energy and pure love and communicate by thought.
We can come back here on earth as often as we want to to learn/experience more.
We have soul contracts too for the Earth plane.
When we think about our earth friends/family who have ‘gone back home’ they are with us instantly. They also aren’t disappointed with us, they are pure loving energy again and want the very best for us.
On the theme of robins/feathers, if you are indoors and a feather floats down from above you and lands on you that’s clearly a sign from your loved ones or angels (unless you have a dove on your ceiling) that they’re with you.
When I was away in a hotel I was watching a robin flit about outside and then it stopped, looked directly at me for 5-10 seconds and I said out loud to my husband ‘oh I wonder who died’. A couple of hours later my cousin messaged to say my uncle had died earlier that morning. I have had lots of actual spirit encounters over the years so I have no doubt that they are with us (and that we are spirit in a meat suit) and we’ll meet them again when it’s our time to go back home.

In response to Alliras comment, we do know who our ghost is. It's our lovely son who sometimes make a sort of shadowy appearance, we just say hello Tim. 😊

Most of what we know about comes through our 5 senses. (Some people claim to have 6.) But it is wrong to think that what we don't know about, doesn't exist. Bats have a sense we have never experienced, echolocation. Birds use some 'magnetic' sense to navigate during migration. In the 18th century, no-one knew about the planet Neptune, does that mean it didn't exist until we gave it permision by discovering i? When we die, we lose control of our body, and therefore our senses, and so, should we survive in another form, we would be unable to communicate in a way that humans can experience. Just because we can't 'experience' the Dead, does not mean they do not still exst. I am with the folk who say 'energy cannot be created or destroyed'.

I want to say I don’t believe in afterlife- but terrified of saying it, in case I am wrong !
Stupid or what !!

Perhaps they're all in a room with CCTV trained on us?