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Hi.

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I'm Sandra Champlain. For over

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twenty five years, I've been on a journey

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to prove the existence of life after

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death. On each episode,

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discuss the reasons we now know that

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our loved ones have survived physical

1:04

death and so will we.

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Welcome to Shades of the Afterlife.

1:10

Today just happens to be a story

1:13

time with Sandra Eya. Well,

1:16

you guys and girls have been so thoughtful

1:19

to share with me your stories, So

1:22

if you want to, if you have a good story

1:25

of maybe a sign from your loved one

1:27

or an experience you had,

1:29

feel free to write me okay. I

1:32

love to share them right Sandra

1:34

Champlain at gmail dot

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com. This first message

1:39

is from Jamie jesuys

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Hi, Sandra, Jamie here. I

1:44

wanted to share this. I started

1:46

training to volunteer with Hospice.

1:49

There's a lot of training videos, twelve

1:51

hours worth, and they are fascinating.

1:55

The first video talked about the history

1:57

of hospice and the founder, Cindy.

2:01

Not only was she amazing, but

2:03

there's videos of her talking

2:06

about how we don't

2:09

die, along with other

2:11

doctors saying the same thing.

2:14

They describe that being with patients,

2:17

they all know that we don't

2:20

die, that our consciousness

2:22

lives on and we really just

2:24

transition to another plane. I

2:27

just wanted to share that. Blessings,

2:29

Jamie, Jamie, thanks

2:32

for that. I tell you I've heard

2:34

from so many hospice people

2:37

and there's incredible stories of what they

2:39

witness, people reaching up and

2:41

seeing their loved ones, and

2:43

it only takes a few of those to

2:46

realize people do come

2:48

for us when we pass and it is

2:50

all real. Here's another story,

2:53

and this is from Tyler. Dear

2:55

Sandra, I thought I would tell you a

2:57

little about our family story and what

3:00

occurred. I too lost

3:02

my father two years ago to cancer,

3:05

and one year later, almost

3:07

to the day of my father's passing, my

3:10

younger brother passed away at

3:12

age forty seven. He too

3:14

was a cancer survivor. Unfortunately

3:17

it returned some thirty years later.

3:20

The week prior to his passing, he

3:22

was in bed. He had our whole

3:24

family present and two close

3:27

friends. His eyesight

3:29

wasn't great. Toward the end, he

3:32

started to point at everyone in the room,

3:34

asking for confirmation as

3:37

to who they were. Then

3:39

he pointed to the corner and asked,

3:41

who is that. Of course,

3:43

no one was there. He then

3:46

began to outstretch his arms in

3:48

a hugging position and said,

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Dad's here. We of

3:53

course could not see Dad, however,

3:56

they embraced. When Mum

3:58

asked him, where is Dad, he

4:01

said he is everywhere.

4:03

My friend in the room who can see

4:06

premonitions, stated

4:08

that she saw my father too,

4:11

and he looked healthy and really

4:13

well. Thanks Tyler, and

4:15

here's Joyce's story.

4:17

I made it through Thanksgiving. I was

4:20

relieved it was over. It wasn't

4:22

easy, but I was so busy with food

4:24

preparation and getting the house ready. I

4:27

had little time to lament Mom

4:30

not being with us. Now I

4:32

was going to have to face Christmas. It

4:34

was going to be harder than anything I have

4:37

ever faced before. Mom

4:39

had succumbed to colon cancer the

4:41

previous January. I had

4:43

lived through the first Thanksgiving

4:46

without her, and now I faced

4:48

the first Christmas. It was

4:50

the first weekend of December. I

4:52

tried to muster up the courage to visit Mom's

4:55

grave to decorate. I visited

4:57

her grave on her birthday, Easter, Mother's

5:00

Day, Memorial Day during the summer

5:02

and earlier in the fall. I

5:05

had only missed two months all year.

5:08

Somehow my heart wasn't in

5:10

it.

5:10

Now.

5:11

I couldn't bear the thought of standing there

5:13

mouthing the words Merry Christmas,

5:16

Mom to a gravestone.

5:19

I began to cry every time

5:21

I thought about it. I made

5:23

excuses every weekend

5:26

in December, and here the

5:29

last weekend it snowed.

5:32

The cemetery was over an hour

5:34

away, and I just couldn't

5:36

get there. I took Monday

5:38

morning off of work. Too

5:41

much work to do with Christmas

5:43

cleaning, decorating, and baking

5:45

cookies. Every day. I was

5:47

tired. I felt more

5:50

and more tired every day, both

5:52

inside and out. I hadn't

5:54

finished the laundry over the weekend, and

5:57

I had one more load of clothes. My

6:00

husband left for work and I was alone.

6:03

Gloom wrapped around me like a shroud.

6:06

My eyes began to fill with tears.

6:09

As I started to load the washer. I

6:11

felt weak, but all at once

6:13

my head began filling with words

6:16

of a poem. I dropped

6:18

the clothing that I had in my hands,

6:20

and they fell to the floor. I

6:22

frantically reached for the pencil

6:25

and paper we kept by the telephone. I

6:28

began to write the words down as fast

6:30

as they came. It was like

6:32

I was possessed. When I finished,

6:35

I had filled two sheets of paper.

6:38

The poem rhymed and flowed nicely,

6:40

as if I had deliberately

6:43

composed it. I hadn't I

6:45

read what I had scribbled down.

6:48

It was at that moment I was certain where the

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poem had come from, Straight

6:53

from heaven. I had no

6:55

doubt that my mom was comforting me, as

6:58

she had so many times since I was

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a child. Here are the words

7:02

that came out in that sudden rush.

7:05

The somber figure stood before

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the marker of cold stone.

7:10

She felt such pain, Her loved

7:13

one lost she stood crying

7:15

all alone. Then a voice

7:17

spoke softly to her, like the

7:20

voice of an angel in prayer. Do

7:23

not weep for me, not ever, my

7:25

child. For you see,

7:27

I'm not really there. My

7:30

soul is at rest. Peace

7:32

and joy are mind. So

7:34

wipe those tears from your face. Go

7:37

on with the living who share

7:39

your life. Take them and

7:41

your loving embrace. I will

7:44

never truly be lost

7:46

to you because of the love we

7:49

hold. Dear dear child,

7:52

Love never ever dies.

7:55

Is it love what has brought you here?

7:58

The light of God's love of shines

8:01

on us, and with him we're

8:03

never alone. The voice

8:05

was fading, just like it began

8:09

to a low and whispering tone.

8:12

The somber figure lifted her eyes.

8:15

The sun had come out

8:17

from above. Slowly she

8:19

walked away from the grave, her

8:22

heart filled with lasting love.

8:25

I quickly finished the laundry and

8:28

decided to make the journey. I

8:30

felt renewed and eager

8:32

to do what I had put off for

8:35

so long. I had a

8:37

beautiful bouquet of point settas edged

8:39

in gold with holly leaves and

8:41

berries. I couldn't wait to place

8:44

it in Mom's face. On

8:46

the drive to the cemetery, a

8:48

panorama of fifty wonderful

8:51

years I had with Mom flashed

8:53

through my mind. I was

8:55

no longer daunted by prospects

8:58

of another encounter with her grave. I

9:01

felt gratitude instead of sorrow,

9:04

knowing my mother was still comforting

9:06

me from beyond the grave. That

9:08

Christmas was quite different for us,

9:11

but a good Christmas overall. It

9:13

wasn't sad or overshadowed by gloom

9:16

and regret. Yes, we remembered

9:18

Mom, only in a completely different

9:20

way than I had anticipated.

9:23

At dinner Christmas Eve, the family

9:25

sat and recalled all the good times

9:28

we had shared with that wonderful lady

9:30

who filled our lives with love

9:33

and all those happy memories. Thanks

9:36

Mom, I know you've always

9:38

been there for me, and you will continue

9:40

to be. I'd like to share with

9:42

you this letter I received from

9:44

Petra. She says our daughter

9:47

transitioned in March twenty

9:49

twenty three after a long

9:52

and serious illness. I

9:54

would like to share with you how Laura sent us

9:56

signs and is still sending them.

9:59

Please feel for you to share these The

10:02

first significant sign we had

10:04

received just a couple hours

10:06

after her passing. My

10:08

husband, her boyfriend, and I

10:11

were sitting at the dining table at

10:13

the fifth floor in a block of units.

10:16

Out of nowhere, we saw

10:18

three balloons bundled together,

10:21

two white and one red, passing

10:24

by at the window and balcony.

10:27

What are the chances to see

10:29

this on the fifth floor

10:32

on a Wednesday morning. The

10:35

second sign happened a day later,

10:37

when my husband opened a bottle of

10:39

a soft drink and saw that the

10:41

expiration date is Laura's

10:43

birthday. The third significant

10:46

sign happened another day. Her

10:49

boyfriend saw a car number plate

10:52

with his birthday, day

10:54

and month and HDL,

10:58

which stands for hub di liba

11:01

I love you in German. Sorry

11:04

about the pronunciation there, I know that's not

11:06

right. When they texted each other,

11:09

HDL was always

11:11

this signature for both of

11:14

them. My belief in the afterlife

11:16

helps me and my family

11:19

to cope better with Laura's passing.

11:22

Thank you, petro Kylie says.

11:25

My aunt passed away from cancer. The

11:27

family was gathered around her house.

11:30

She had been in a coma for the last few days.

11:33

She suddenly sat upright and was

11:35

coherent and talking, but talking

11:38

to someone the rest of us couldn't see.

11:40

She kept looking at the Christmas tree

11:43

or should I say through the tree.

11:45

Her face almost glowed as she was

11:48

so happy and excited. As

11:50

she carried on in her conversation, she

11:52

kept nodding and said that she was so

11:55

glad to see him again. She

11:57

was talking to her late husband, who

11:59

had passed many years before. Then

12:02

she gasped, and she said that her

12:04

mom and dad were there, and of

12:06

course we were all crying. When

12:08

she said Jesus is coming this way,

12:11

it gave me the chills. But when

12:13

she turned and looked straight at

12:15

me, she said, MA, is so

12:18

happy that you named your little girl

12:20

after her. I had given

12:22

birth a month before then and

12:24

named my baby Sarah, same

12:27

as my grandmother. It's

12:30

time for us to go to the break. But please,

12:32

if you have a story to share, even

12:34

if you feel it's insignificant, send

12:37

it my way. Okay, Sandra

12:39

Champlaine at gmail dot

12:42

com. You never know who

12:45

listening can be really touched

12:48

by your story and give them

12:50

hope and faith that their

12:52

loved ones have gone on. All

12:55

right, We'll be right back. You're

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Welcome back to Shades of the Afterlife.

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I'm Sandra Champlain. Joyce's

13:57

story of having that

14:00

kind of downloaded into her mind

14:03

made me think about automatic

14:05

writing. Now. Often you'll

14:08

hear people talking about automatic

14:10

writing, as if they

14:12

hear the words in their mind and

14:14

they write them down to

14:16

be real technical though, that

14:19

is more inspired

14:21

writing. It could come from our

14:23

loved ones, It could come from

14:26

our soul, It

14:28

could be a blend of us in them.

14:31

True automatic writing is

14:34

when we have no real

14:37

idea that our hand is moving,

14:40

our eyes are closed, and

14:42

it seems as if our loved

14:44

ones hold the pen

14:47

or pencil to the paper and write.

14:50

I often say automatic writing when

14:52

I'm talking about inspired writing, because

14:55

very few people can

14:57

go into that meditative state

15:00

and have their hand on a piece of paper, only

15:03

to open their eyes and have words

15:05

written on it. This past

15:07

week, I interviewed a

15:10

man named David Gagin.

15:13

If you want to hear the entire

15:15

interview, you can. I have

15:17

it on my Sandra Champlain

15:20

YouTube channel. But today I

15:22

want you to hear what he said and

15:25

his experience with automatic

15:27

writing. His daughter actually

15:29

did it after his wife, Judy

15:31

passed, and I believe David.

15:34

Let me tell you a little bit about him. He

15:37

was a very successful engineer

15:39

before he retired. He designed

15:41

aircraft for Boeing, directed

15:44

US Army and NASA research

15:46

operations, and founded

15:49

the world's leading defense microwave

15:52

subsystems company. He's

15:54

the author of two books.

15:57

One is called The Endless Journey,

16:00

A unique perspective on Mankind's

16:02

origin, Purpose and ultimate

16:05

destiny. And he just

16:07

released his second book, which

16:09

is called Our Eternal Existence,

16:13

A metaphysical Perspective of

16:15

Reality. So let

16:17

me play for you the clip

16:20

when he talks about his wife's passing.

16:22

My wife, it was extremely

16:25

sudden. I was at the time

16:27

retired. It's about six years ago,

16:29

and I was doing a weekly radio show

16:31

live at the time, a common

16:33

Sense spirituality show, and

16:36

so I would do that Friday morning, and

16:38

when she would help me a lot in

16:40

the various things that we did,

16:43

and then all of a sudden.

16:46

I heard a thump in the middle of the night about one

16:48

thirty and her heart

16:50

just gave out, just flat

16:53

out gave out. She was healthy the

16:55

evening before, the day before, it just

16:57

stopped. So that was

17:00

a jolt, and then we

17:02

decided that we tried to get in touch

17:04

with it. And I tried to get in touch Withather through

17:07

Shepherdhood when and he was able

17:09

to do a little bit, but it was a little early.

17:12

And I find that you have to wait

17:14

about four months after somebody

17:17

dies because it's pretty busy

17:19

when they transfer over and it's

17:21

pretty hard to get their attention and

17:23

have them really adjust

17:26

to the astral

17:28

plane. My daughter,

17:32

just about four months after

17:34

that, got in touch with a medium

17:37

and it was interesting. The medium gave

17:40

my two daughters a lot of

17:42

information and they came back afterwards.

17:44

I wasn't in it. I didn't go to the meetium until

17:46

a week later. I wasn't available,

17:49

but they said it's

17:51

all about you, dad, and I thought, oh,

17:53

that's interesting. They started

17:55

telling me things that Judy

17:58

had told them, my wife, Judy had told them,

18:01

And if you have a

18:03

close relationship with somebody, especially

18:05

Judy and I are together, fifty years. There

18:08

are things that you two

18:10

know together that are really nobody else's

18:12

business and no other people don't really care about it anyway,

18:15

but there are certain things. And Julie

18:18

started to tell me about these

18:20

things that she had said, and

18:22

my daughter didn't have any clue what

18:25

she was relaying, but I

18:27

did, and it was clearly a message

18:30

to me, and of course she had

18:32

other messages for the kids too. What

18:35

I found was

18:37

that it's very easy.

18:39

I believe this stuff anyway, but it's

18:42

a lot of people don't appreciate how

18:44

easy it is to contact

18:47

people.

18:47

On the other side.

18:49

And the key is to

18:51

make sure that you

18:54

don't tell the medium anything

18:57

special. What you need to do is

18:59

you need to convince yourself

19:02

who you are talking to. So

19:04

you tell them your name, you tell them

19:06

the name of the person that you're looking for,

19:09

and they tell them the relationship.

19:12

But that's about it. Don't go any further than

19:14

that. The person will

19:16

come. They want to talk to us, especially

19:18

if they recently have passed

19:21

away.

19:21

They want to talk to us.

19:22

They want to tell us things, they want to tell us how they

19:24

are, and they want to convince us

19:27

that indeed it is them. So

19:29

they will say things and tell you things

19:32

that the medium could never know. And

19:35

if that's the case, then you can convince

19:37

yourself that, yeah, this is what's going on.

19:40

They'll do most of the talking.

19:42

They'll talk through the medium, and the medium, of course,

19:44

we'll talk to you, but they'll answer questions

19:46

too. If you have questions, they'll answer those

19:48

questions very specifically. But

19:51

the real key is convincing

19:53

yourself of who you're

19:55

talking to. This

19:58

medium was very good. After

20:00

I saw her, she offered an

20:03

automatic writing course to

20:05

teach people how to do it. So both

20:08

my daughters went to that course.

20:09

I did not.

20:10

It was a couple of months, i'd say, after we

20:13

had had our first discussion with

20:16

Judy. There was I think five

20:18

women in the course, and only

20:20

one was able to do automatic writing.

20:22

That was my youngest daughter. My oldest couldn't,

20:24

but my youngest could. It

20:27

was interesting. Of course, this woman had

20:29

known my wife,

20:32

Judy because of the previous

20:34

sessions. And after the session

20:36

was over, she said, your

20:38

mother was standing right between the two

20:40

ea the whole time, and.

20:43

I thought that was very interesting. And

20:45

then she told that to the kids.

20:47

And then they went and they got in the car and

20:49

they're driving home and the oldest one's driving

20:52

and the youngest one says, Okay, I'm going to

20:54

read what I wrote. One of the things I wrote

20:56

is I'm standing right next to you. So

20:59

it was amazing. And my daughter has

21:01

been able to do automatic writing only

21:04

with her mother. What she would do is

21:06

she gets in her favorite chair and she relaxed,

21:08

and she meditates, and she

21:10

gets things around her that

21:13

are Judy's

21:15

things, maybe an old

21:18

blanket or something that

21:20

would tie.

21:22

Her to Judy.

21:23

It's amazing what she's able to write.

21:26

When I was working on my house up in

21:28

Massachusetts, I had to had a leak in

21:30

the roof and I couldn't find it to save my life. So

21:33

I said, Chris, would you please

21:35

ask your mother where this leak is because.

21:37

I can't find it. So Chris

21:39

goes, okay.

21:40

Now Chris had never been on my roof

21:43

and she never would be. She

21:45

comes back says, Dad, it's between the

21:47

fireplace and a wet bar, and

21:49

it's right up right up on top

21:51

there.

21:51

So I said, okay.

21:53

So I went back up on the roof and

21:55

there was this hairline crack that I'd never

21:57

noticed before, and it's

22:00

amazing.

22:01

So they know a huge amount.

22:03

They're very interested in talking

22:05

to you, and they have a lot to do.

22:07

It's nice to know that they're not gone.

22:10

That's a big deal. It's a big deal.

22:13

And my kids really really

22:17

appreciated it and they go back. Or

22:19

Chris in her automatic

22:22

writing can do that as well.

22:23

We talk a little bit about the automatic writing, having

22:26

a journal out, like you said, bring in some of

22:28

her things and then just get into that

22:30

meditative space and have a conversation.

22:32

Really, is that what she does.

22:35

No, Actually, what she does.

22:37

She can have a conversation, but what she'd

22:39

do is she just turns over

22:42

her hand in her arm with

22:45

a pencil and a paper there, and

22:47

she just starts to write, and it comes

22:49

right from Judy right into her

22:52

hand, and Judy just takes over the

22:54

writing and she can ask her

22:56

questions and she'll reply on the writing

23:00

of those things that you automatically.

23:04

Do. The writing.

23:05

You're not conscious of what you're writing.

23:08

Afterwards, you go read it, but you

23:10

get an answer. I've never

23:12

been with Chris when she's done

23:14

this. She likes to do

23:16

it when she's all alone

23:19

and totally focused on

23:22

Judy.

23:23

Once again, that was David Gagin.

23:26

I took a course back in twenty

23:28

sixteen because I just found the notes.

23:31

Now, this wasn't to connect to anybody in the

23:33

afterlife, but it was to do

23:35

inspired writing. We

23:38

did try automatic writing, and my hand

23:40

just stayed there with

23:43

a pen in hand on a paper. Nothing happened.

23:46

Our instructors said that it

23:48

can be you, it can be them. It

23:51

can be ninety nine percent you one percent

23:53

them. But in time they

23:56

get used to working

23:59

with us. When I did

24:01

automatic writing, I would just

24:04

write down words as they

24:06

came to my mind. I was clear

24:08

I was not inventing the words

24:10

and creating a story. I

24:13

want to read to you one thing

24:15

that came out of my fingertips.

24:18

It's the truth of the rose. Deep

24:21

within the earth, once sprang

24:23

a small bud. The sun

24:26

warmed the earth, and the bud grew

24:29

towards the warmth of the sun. The

24:31

rain and the soil nourished

24:33

the young plant until the day

24:35

it broke free through the ground. We

24:38

do not know how it will appear, but

24:41

know that deep inside it's

24:43

truth, it knows it is

24:45

destined to be great and

24:48

worldly. The day finally

24:50

happens, its bud blossoms

24:53

and spreads the wings of its petals,

24:56

A beautiful rose is born for all

24:58

to enjoy. However, after

25:00

the sun sets the final time

25:02

on the aging rose, it droops

25:05

and returns to the earth. The

25:07

earthly senses can no longer

25:10

detect its existence.

25:13

However, to our sixth and heavenly

25:15

sense, the truth is

25:17

that a rose will once

25:19

again return for our

25:22

joy, for our pleasure, because

25:24

the cycle never ends. Keep

25:26

facing the warmth of the sun

25:29

and grow and trust you

25:32

too, can never end. When

25:35

I read this to my friend, he

25:37

said that when his mom passed,

25:40

he put a single rose in her coffin

25:44

and said almost the

25:46

identical words, It's

25:49

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27:06

Welcome back to Shades of the Afterlife.

27:08

I'm Sandra Champlain. I want

27:10

to continue now with stories

27:12

from listeners. This one's from

27:14

Alexandra. Hi, Sandra,

27:17

thank you so much for taking the time to reply

27:19

to me. You're amazing what

27:21

you do, as well as caring for

27:23

your mom. My husband and I

27:25

struggle to make it through every day.

27:28

It is so hard when our world is torn apart.

27:31

We still have our son here, but not

27:33

having our daughter here physically just

27:36

doesn't feel right. I've been reading

27:39

chapter ten of your book We Don't

27:41

Die, and I plan to go back to

27:43

the beginning as well. Thank you

27:45

for everything you do. You give a lot

27:47

of people hope. This is kind of

27:49

random, but I wanted to share it with you. I

27:52

bought some of these battery powered

27:54

candles with a remote, and

27:56

they're in my daughter's cabinet that

27:59

has her and all of her

28:01

things we have displayed

28:03

for her. Well, we've been

28:05

noticing that around the same time

28:08

every night, they come on

28:10

by themselves. These

28:12

candles only have a couple of settings

28:15

like on and off and a timer

28:17

for two hours, four hours, six hours,

28:20

but there's no setting to have them come

28:22

on at a certain time. You

28:25

manually have to turn them on, and

28:27

we do one at a time, and

28:29

I believe there's about nine of them altogether.

28:32

Well, last night my husband sat

28:34

his phone up to try to

28:36

catch the candles coming on. He

28:40

even left the remote in front

28:42

of his phone to show he

28:44

didn't have it anywhere near the

28:46

cabinet. You can hear him come

28:48

out of the bathroom and I

28:50

can see in the glass of the cabinet

28:53

where he comes back into the room to

28:55

see if the candles are on. And

28:57

what gets me, Sandra is at the front.

29:00

The first one that comes on is

29:02

the one right in front of

29:04

her ashes, and then

29:06

all of the candles turn on

29:09

one by one, and then

29:11

finally the one that hadn't

29:13

turned on turns on last,

29:16

all by itself. We

29:18

know it's our daughter. We

29:21

cry so hard, but it's

29:23

comforting knowing she's letting

29:25

us know she's here. I have

29:27

been trying to comfort my son, and

29:29

I took a video in the

29:32

dark. As my son was laying next

29:34

to me, he kept looking around

29:36

the room and laughing. And

29:38

all I can think of is that his big sister

29:41

wanted to make him laugh because that

29:43

was their nightly routine. Thanks

29:46

Alexandra. Here's one from

29:48

Marie. This was after I

29:50

talked about lucid dreaming. She says, Hi,

29:53

Sandra, you're definitely onto

29:55

something. I love your experiment

29:57

with your dad. I wanted to

29:59

share with you my first lucid dream

30:02

twenty four years ago. Before I

30:04

knew what lucid dreaming was, my

30:07

mom had passed about a month before,

30:09

and she instigated the dream

30:11

for me. I was back in my

30:14

childhood home and I saw her

30:16

in our kitchen. Her back

30:18

was to me. I realized

30:21

then that I was in a dream

30:24

because I knew she had passed away. So

30:26

I began talking to her, asking her questions,

30:30

Mama, are you in heaven? Her

30:32

response was so perfect, just

30:35

like she would say to me. Of course,

30:38

her back was still turned to me as she

30:40

kept cooking. I asked

30:42

her if she saw our cat Joe that

30:44

had passed away, and if she saw

30:47

Jesus. She didn't answer

30:49

me, but she turned around and just looked

30:52

at me. Sandra, my mom

30:54

passed from oral cancer. She

30:56

had scars on her face from the surgery

30:59

before she passed. When she turned

31:01

around in my dream, her face

31:04

was completely healed and it

31:06

was glowing. She just

31:08

smiled at me, and

31:10

then I woke up. This

31:12

was so comforting to me. There's

31:15

no doubt in my mind that

31:17

she was telling me that

31:20

she's okay. This

31:22

still makes me tear up and I still

31:24

remember it vividly. It

31:26

was so real. Yes,

31:29

they come to us in dreams. Thank

31:32

you again for everything, Marie.

31:35

You are most welcome, Marie, thank

31:37

you. This next story

31:39

is from Sherry. Hi, Sandra, I've

31:41

been a listener for a long time,

31:44

and of course I've read your book more than once. You

31:47

must get a ton of emails, and if you get

31:49

around to reading this, I have a question.

31:52

We both have something in common. My

31:54

father passed with a rare form of cancer.

31:57

I've only heard of one other person experiencing

32:01

what I saw, and that had come

32:03

to me through secondhand knowledge.

32:06

Even though my brother and I were expecting

32:09

our father's passing, as

32:11

you know, it's still a shock During

32:13

the last thirty six hours, my father

32:15

was unconscious, though gasping

32:18

for each breath. Honestly,

32:20

if someone had told me that

32:22

I would pray for my father to die up

32:24

to that point, I would have said they were

32:26

crazy. I firmly

32:29

believe his love for his children. My

32:31

brother and I kept him around

32:33

as long as he could. Every

32:36

day that our pastor was there, she

32:38

always said a special prayer. It

32:40

was just like my father to wait till

32:42

the pastor got there. That day, as

32:45

she said, amen, I saw

32:47

changes happening very quickly. My

32:50

brother ran to get the nurse. She

32:52

comes in, puts a stethoscope to his

32:55

neck and pronounced him dead, even

32:58

though expecting it. Lapsed

33:00

into the nurse's arms, and as

33:02

I looked over her shoulder to

33:05

my father, I said, wait, something's

33:08

going on. This is what appeared

33:10

to me. It looked like smoke came

33:13

out of my father's mouth and nose.

33:15

My brother saw it as well and said, Cherry,

33:18

it is his spirit leaving his body. My

33:21

brother and I have never talked about this. I

33:24

was wondering if you've heard of this and

33:26

what your opinion was on this. Thank

33:29

you for all you do. I've learned so much.

33:31

You are most welcome. I did

33:34

write Sherry back, and when

33:36

I interviewed doctor Raymond

33:39

Moody and Paul Perry just

33:41

recently, which was

33:44

episode one hundred and

33:46

fifty one, this is

33:48

something they talk about. If

33:50

you haven't yet picked up a copy

33:53

of Raymond Moody's and

33:55

Paul Perry's latest book, I think you'd really

33:57

enjoy it. It's called Proof of Life.

33:59

Out There to Life, Seven Reasons

34:01

to Believe that there is an afterlife. And

34:04

in the book they talk

34:07

about this phenomena of

34:09

people seeing a white light or

34:11

a mist that can

34:13

leave a person and appear

34:16

to form a funnel, and often

34:18

it can depart and look

34:21

like it's going through the window or out

34:23

through the ceiling. So go back to episode

34:26

one five to one and you can hear about

34:28

it, and you can pick up a copy of the book if

34:30

you like. Here's Carla's

34:32

story. I have a story

34:35

about a rosary. My dad was

34:37

driving on a business trip when the car

34:39

started to give him some trouble. The engine

34:41

was overheating. He had been nursing

34:44

it along and he decided he better

34:46

pulled over and let it cool down

34:49

so he could make a decision how to proceed. He

34:51

went into a convenience store to use

34:53

the facilities and to get a cup of coffee.

34:56

There was a young man in the restroom washing

34:59

his hands in face. He turned

35:01

to my dad admitted he was embarrassed

35:03

to ask, but asked if my dad

35:05

could spare a dollar. Dad

35:08

had a pocket full of coins for tolls,

35:10

probably five dollars or so. He

35:13

gave it to the young man, who was extremely

35:15

grateful. When Dad came out

35:17

of the restroom, he found a worn

35:20

wooden rosary dropped over

35:22

the steering wheel. It was

35:24

obviously well loved. He searched

35:27

the gas station to return it to the young

35:29

man, who was nowhere to be found.

35:32

The car did not overheat

35:35

the rest of the long way to his destination.

35:38

She also says, I have a story

35:41

about my dear friend's grandma who

35:43

was dying. The family arranged

35:45

for neighbors and relatives to

35:48

sit with her while her daughter was at

35:50

work. One of the neighbors arrived

35:52

late and apologized. The grandma

35:54

said it was totally fine because

35:56

her friends kept her company. This

35:59

was weird because no one else was

36:01

scheduled to arrive. The

36:03

neighbor asked Pauline who the friends

36:06

were, but she didn't answer. She

36:09

asked what they talked about, and Pauline

36:11

said they just fixed her hair and

36:13

told her not to worry. She

36:16

said they made her laugh and brought

36:18

her roses. After

36:20

that, different people started

36:22

reporting smelling roses,

36:25

and when there were none in the house and

36:27

no air freshener or perfume

36:30

or rose scented soap. When

36:33

Pauline died, I went to her funeral

36:36

at the house. Afterward, I was

36:38

drawn to the big easy chair where

36:40

she always sat. I

36:43

plopped down and was immediately overcome

36:46

by the fragrance of roses. There

36:48

were no roses in the house. And

36:51

one last story from Carla.

36:54

When my dad was in hospice, my

36:56

siblings and I gathered at the facility

36:59

to be with him when he was ready to go

37:01

on his journey. We stayed

37:03

over that night, me, my three brothers,

37:05

my step mama, plus my dog. Everyone

37:09

was asleep except for one

37:11

brother, who told us the next morning that

37:13

Zoya the dog gazed up at

37:15

the ceiling above Dad all

37:18

night, moving her head back

37:20

and forth, watching something

37:23

that my brother could not see.

37:26

Starr says, I am

37:28

a patient support volunteer

37:31

at Hope West Hospice. I

37:33

was a support volunteer for one sweet

37:35

woman for over a year when

37:38

one day I received a phone call from

37:40

her son. He said the hospice

37:42

nurse explained to him that his

37:44

mother was declining rapidly. He

37:47

said I should come as soon as possible

37:50

if I wanted to see her one last

37:52

time. When I arrived, the

37:54

client was lying in bed with

37:56

her eyes closed and a sweet

37:59

expression and smile on her face.

38:01

I held her hand and spoke to

38:03

her, letting her know that I was there.

38:06

She never opened her eyes, but

38:08

at one point her lips moved

38:11

and I could see that she was trying

38:13

to speak. I knelt down closer

38:15

to her face and asked her what

38:17

she said. She replied

38:20

angels with a big

38:22

smile. I asked her, did

38:25

you say angels? And

38:27

that was the same sweet expression

38:29

on her face and she replied,

38:32

yes, angels. She

38:35

passed away a few hours later. Needless

38:37

to say, she left me and her

38:40

son with a priceless gift.

38:42

As we go into the break, just imagine

38:45

that your loved ones are all around

38:48

you. They've been with you, they haven't

38:50

left you. They are cheering you on.

38:53

From that invisible space around.

38:56

I always say life is an education

38:58

for the soul, but never know

39:00

how big our cheering committee

39:03

is. While we're here, we'll

39:05

be right back. You're listening to Shades

39:08

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39:25

right out.

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40:01

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40:22

Welcome back to Shades of the Afterlife. I'm

40:25

Sandra Champlain and we are sharing

40:28

listeners stories and of course,

40:30

if you have a story for me, please

40:33

write me. I'd love to share it. We

40:35

all need evidence that our loved ones

40:38

have gone on. And yes, so

40:40

many times we hear from somebody that's written

40:42

a book or has a podcast

40:45

or.

40:45

Was it a movie?

40:46

But what about the regular guys and girls?

40:49

Do things happen? Yes, they

40:52

do. Our loved ones are

40:54

around us, and they want us to know that

40:56

they are alive, that we'll see them again,

40:59

and of course that their love

41:01

for us never dies. So

41:03

this is from Joanna, She says,

41:05

Hi, Sandra, as you can imagine,

41:07

my intuition has opened up and

41:10

improved, and my bond in

41:12

this new form of relationship with my loved

41:15

one has strengthened. Yesterday

41:17

evening before the Sunday Gatherings

41:20

medium demonstration, I

41:22

had a tingle in my ear and

41:24

I knew instantly that I have just

41:27

been told I will be there.

41:30

And before Chris started, I knew

41:32

it again because my heart

41:35

was pounding, and I got the

41:37

reading, and another thing happened some

41:39

time ago. I am a lucid

41:41

dreamer. At least I can

41:43

well disguise my own dreams

41:46

from dream visitations. But

41:48

I'm still learning. I once had

41:50

a dream that blew my mind. It

41:53

was somehow Sonia Ranaldi's

41:55

set up her presentation

41:58

for which I signed up for, and

42:00

that was used by my loved one.

42:02

For that specific dream, I

42:04

had a pre information from

42:06

my loved one about the fact

42:09

that there will be a kind of lottery

42:12

tickets will be sold for Sonya andaldi

42:14

that someone could win. Note

42:17

Sandra, this was long before

42:19

you announced it. I dreamed this

42:22

before, and in that dream I

42:24

was able to receive a ticket.

42:27

So I had this ticket. And although

42:29

everything was almost over, an assistant

42:31

of Sonya's said that she will

42:34

turn on the projector at some

42:36

point. When she flipped through the images,

42:39

there was one and I said, stop, it

42:41

reminds me of my room. It

42:44

was from the bathroom, and there was a mirror

42:46

which I looked at, and all of a sudden,

42:48

my loved one appeared in that mirror

42:51

with a huge smile. In

42:53

that moment, there was no time

42:55

left for questions or amazement.

42:59

The sheer joy was too outstanding

43:02

and just pulled me in that feeling

43:04

which was overwhelming and beyond

43:06

words or feelings that I

43:08

know from here. I will never

43:11

forget this, and of course

43:13

I will keep this forever in my heart.

43:15

But it's not about me or my dream story.

43:18

With this, I just wanted to let you know

43:21

how ingenious and brilliant

43:23

the spirit world also works

43:26

with you, with the contents,

43:28

the people their projects involved.

43:30

Isn't this crazy?

43:31

Somehow?

43:32

It's beyond imagination? How

43:35

many are involved in your

43:37

project? Here and beyond,

43:40

and on what different layers. It

43:42

is also beyond words to count

43:44

all the stories, moments, wisdom

43:46

you create by doing what you're doing.

43:49

Thank you so so much. It's

43:51

wonderful that you are who you are

43:54

and how dedicated you work. I

43:56

appreciate your reminders and all the

43:58

extras and all the services you provide.

44:01

You are a giver, a sharer, and it

44:03

is great to see you in action, being

44:05

so full of life, present and with enthusiasm.

44:08

It's contagious, uplifting, and

44:10

you have what it takes to be a role model.

44:13

Your dad, your spirit team must be cheering

44:15

you on and celebrating you

44:18

permanently, just as many of

44:20

us do here. I wish you lots

44:22

of inspiration for all the things to come,

44:25

and I'm happy you have a great community

44:27

that supports and appreciates you. Best

44:29

wishes from Switzerland, Joanna,

44:32

Oh, that is so nice.

44:34

You know.

44:35

I enjoy doing this and these

44:37

stories make just as much of a difference

44:39

as they do to you, they do

44:42

it for me. I have had those

44:44

instances though that things

44:46

seem like coincidences, but

44:49

I don't think they are, and I think for each

44:51

episode that I do, there's

44:53

somebody whispering into my ear what

44:56

I need to talk about. We don't need to

44:58

see the whole path in front of us, We

45:00

just need to take the first step. So

45:02

as if with inspired writing, you

45:05

know how I told you that I just write

45:07

the word that comes to mind. The

45:09

same thing holds true with everything that I

45:11

do. I just take that first step,

45:14

and it seems like inspiration

45:16

comes and health is on

45:18

the way.

45:19

Yeah.

45:19

I couldn't do Shades of the Afterlife alone,

45:21

I don't think. How about another story?

45:24

This is from Marie. She says,

45:26

Hi, Sandra, I wanted to share my story

45:28

with you. First of all, thank you for what

45:31

you do. I feel like we're friends. You're

45:33

so down to earth and sincere. Oh,

45:35

thank you, Marie. My story is

45:37

a simple one. My mom and I

45:40

were very close before she passed

45:42

many years ago. She had a rose

45:44

bush that never bloomed. We

45:46

would get angry at it for not blooming.

45:49

The day of her funeral, we saw

45:51

a single pink rose on

45:53

it. Coincidentally,

45:56

the program at church for

45:58

her ceremony had a pink

46:00

rose on the front, which

46:03

we had not chosen. It was

46:05

random. The bush did not bloom

46:08

again until November the

46:10

next year, the day

46:13

my son was born. By

46:15

themselves. These seem random,

46:18

but putting them collectively, it

46:20

seems like it's my mama telling

46:23

me she is still here with us. The

46:25

house has since been sold,

46:27

so I can't see the rose bush anymore,

46:30

but now I have found myself seeing

46:33

pink roses at unexpected

46:35

places. I would love to know if

46:38

anyone else receives signs

46:40

in plants. Thank you for listening.

46:43

So if you have had a sign and a

46:45

plant.

46:46

Write me.

46:47

Here's a story from Mary.

46:50

This is an incredible story about how my

46:52

mother has shown me she's still around.

46:55

It was in twenty thirteen and

46:57

I had been caring for my mother in

46:59

my home for two years. She

47:02

had dementia and she had only

47:04

about a six second short term memory.

47:07

She did have a terrific sense of humor, and

47:09

she was a lot of fun even

47:11

in the throes of dementia. She spoke

47:14

in a series of hilarious

47:16

one liners. I'll fast forward

47:19

to June, when she was actively dying.

47:21

I had been sitting next to her on her bed,

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holding her hand and watching her

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breathe in and out. It was around four

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thirty in the morning when she took her last

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breath. That very second, the

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TV in her room turned bright blue

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and said complete signal

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loss. I was still holding

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her hand and felt what

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I can only describe as bubbles

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or marbles passing through

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our hands. I've been searching

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for answers to what I felt since then.

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When her TV turned blue and said

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complete signal loss, I

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immediately thought that that was her

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being funny. Shortly after

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her death, I started collecting

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hands or clasped

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hand jewelry because

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it reminded me of that experience. I

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found a beautiful gold ring that

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was shaped like a hand, and

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it had a green emerald on one of the

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fingers of the hand. My

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mom loved emeralds,

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so I bought it and paid four hundred

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for it. I wore it regularly

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until I had to sell it to get some

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money to help out one of our kids.

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So I sold it on eBay for five hundred

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and shipped it off to the buyer with

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a heavy and sad heart. Five

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days later, I received a message from

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that buyer saying he didn't

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want it anymore and wanted

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his money back, so he

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sent it back. I was secretly

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thrilled, but three months

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later I had to sell it again, and

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this time I pawned it. And

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then shortly after that I

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ran into my old babysitter from

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fifteen years earlier, who

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asked me for my address because

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she said she had a surprise to send to

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me. I waited for a package

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from her, and five days later

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it came. It was a

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ring that my mom had bought me

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in Aruba twenty years

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earlier. Apparently

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eighteen years ago. My daughter,

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who was three at the time, wore

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that ring to the babysitters and

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lost it over there, and

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the babysitter found the ring

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years later in the bottom of

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the toy box and kept

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it. I believe my

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mom was sending me a message

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returning the ring. I'd like to

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read to you one more piece of inspired

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writing that I wrote back in twenty

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sixteen. A young robin

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in the garden has such a sweet song.

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The early morning comes, the sun

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begins to wake up, and the robin believes

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he has the most important task

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of song. He is young

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and not well versed. However,

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he has witnessed countless robin

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elders singing their songs to the world.

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On this day, the young robin realizes

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he is all alone there's no one else

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there to do the singing. Fear

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creeps in and the young Robin worries

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what his song might sound like. Will

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it be good enough? Will it inspire?

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Will it be enough to wake up the sun

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and wake up the world. The

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whole of the earth seems to go quiet

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for young Robin. Then in

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a flash, the most beautiful

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female robin flies by, without

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warning, without free meditation, without

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thought, The young Robin belts

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out a beautiful song from

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deep in his lungs. The tune is

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carried far and wide. Then

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sunrises, and the young Robin knows

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he has incredible power. For

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you and for me, it is much the same.

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We can spend so much time wondering

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if our song is enough. We

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are enough. However, when

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we allow love to fill our souls,

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our songs must be sung.

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The power is ours to lift

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the sun from the darkness, move

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mountains across the land, and

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create heaven on earth. Love

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is the answer. Love is

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the answer. But what is the question. That's

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for each one of us to decide. Do

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you want to try this inspired

51:42

writing? Take some time

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to yourself, quiet your mind,

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say a loving prayer to those around

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you, and just put

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that pen to paper or those

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fingers to the keyboard. Don't

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expect, don't anticipate,

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Just be in that present moment. Whatever

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words come to mind, write them

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as you hear them in your mind. It

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may take some practice, it may

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take some time. In the beginning, it

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might be ninety nine percent you one

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percent your inspirers. But

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in time you get to give a voice

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to your loved ones and your

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soul. Remember to come visit

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me if we don't die dot com.

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I'm Sandra Champlain. Thank

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you so much for listening to Shades

52:31

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52:43

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