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Do the Spirits Celebrate Valentine's Day?
by Hollister Rand
"Charlie is giving you a teddy bear. I can see him handing it to you. Do you have a teddy bear that he gave to you?" I asked a young woman whose boyfriend had passed quite suddenly. She looked stunned. When she recovered she said, "He gave me a teddy bear for Valentine's Day, the last one we had together. But I returned it!"
Oh no, I thought. Did this young man in spirit bring up a sore point? His girlfriend then went on to say, "I returned it because I thought it was too expensive and he really couldn't afford it." "Well," I said to her, "He's giving it to you again, just in time for Valentine's Day" (which was about a week away).
When asked whether the spirits celebrate Valentine's Day, I say, "Absolutely. Every day." The love with which they come to speak to those left behind never ceases to bring tears to my eyes. The love that they share is a supportive love, a non-jealous love, an unending love, in many ways, a love that is almost beyond our understanding.
In thinking about this love, I'm reminded of a father in spirit who showed me a bouquet of roses on a night table which he told me he had given to his daughter. I couldn't quite understand this because earlier on in his message, he made it clear that he and his daughter were separated while she was still a baby. His daughter had quite a tale to tell about the flowers.
The bouquet of roses, she told me (and others at the spirit circle) had been given to her one by one, spontaneously, by people who had crossed her path. Many of these people prefaced the gift by saying, "I don't know why I'm doing this but . . ." and then proceeded to give her a rose.
The father who had been separated from his little girl in life was determined to re-establish his love for her after his death. Now that's a Valentine's Day gift no matter when it arrives!
Before a recent phone reading, I sensed a husband in spirit who arrived with lots of questions - - not questions he wanted to ask, but those his wife wanted to ask me. Is it okay to sell the car? (Her husband loved his Mustang.) What about the truck? (Her father-in-law wanted it.) How do I go on living without you? Some questions were heart-wrenching and others a bit more mundane. Her husband not only gave me answers, but he gave me the questions before his wife could even ask. His concern for her was specific and detailed. This, more than anything, demonstrated his love for (and continued interest in) her and the family. I think he was sending a very big Valentine's Day card.
A woman distraught over the loss of her baby and her beloved dog both within five months was comforted when the two showed up together during a session. Her loyal and loving dog made it clear that he would be with her baby and other dogs she knew (a German shepherd, a shepherd mix, and a group of short-legged dogs belonging to a friend). Her dog also made it clear that they would all be together again in the spirit world . . . someday.
A husband in spirit told me that he would show up with hearts for his wife. He insisted that she could see the hearts from her window at work. She looked at me like I was crazy. Later she told me that one day while looking out her office window, she noticed that the lattice work on the building across the street had hearts in its design. Now she has a Valentine from her husband that she sees every day.
Love is. It is never love lost. It is there in the very structure of everything - - even in the lattice work of a neighboring building. Sometimes when our hearts are broken, it is just hard to notice it. So the spirits point the way.
Recently I met with a wife who had been left to raise her four young children after her husband's murder. At the very end of the session, her husband in spirit showed balloons to me. "Our family always celebrates with balloons," his wife said. "Well, they'd better be red," her husband practically shouted in my ear. After gasping and starting to cry, the young wife and mother told me that her husband had given her red balloons for their last Valentine's Day together.
So, yes, the spirits celebrate Valentine's Day with us. They remember celebrations past and will be there for future celebrations as well.
Life continues and love remains.
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