Hi, everyone,

For the longest time I've wanted to tell my son (he's 9) about my, um, experiences.  Somehow yesterday I got my courage together.  Just thought I'd share the results here!

From my journal:

So yesterday I worked up the nerve to tell Sandro a little bit about my seeing/talking to spirits, etc.  David said he thought it was a good idea, and said that T. (another wonderful spirit who volunteered to look out for my son) did too—they just suggested doing it little by little, just seeing where Sandro went with it, and not pushing too hard.

In the car on the way to St. Augustine, with butterflies doing the Macarena in my stomach, I took a deep breath and said, “OK, I have something I want to tell you, but please just keep it between us because other people might think it’s kind of weird, even though it’s really not.”  (One thing I know and love about Sandro is that I know that, if I ask him to do something like keep a secret, he will.  I just didn’t want him to think it was a secret because there’s something “wrong” with it”).  And then I told him that the reason that I like to watch “Ghost Whisperer”, etc., is because I can sort of do that stuff.

“Um, no offense,” he said, “but WHY are you telling me this?  It doesn’t really have any effect on MY life?”  HUH?

I was prepared for him to be weirded out, or at least a little curious.  “Well,” I babbled, “you’re my son, and I just thought you’d be interested in knowing that about me.”

He seemed completely nonplussed, and kept insisting that he doesn’t believe in “ghosts” (even while we were taking a really lame ghost tour in St. Augustine).  So I pretty much let it go, but I still thought his reaction was strange, and worried that his non-reaction was actually due to his being upset about what I said.

As we were getting ready to go to sleep, though, he said, “OK, I still don’t really believe in ghosts, but if there are ghosts, do you think they’re protecting us from bad things that could happen to us?”

Whoa.  I told him yes, and that they particularly liked to look out for him (which they do).

“Well, if there ARE ghosts, I’d want them to know that I don’t mean them any harm.”  I told him that that was exactly the right attitude.

I told him that sometimes they tell me things about what will happen in the future, and that I also have dreams that do the same thing, and he wanted me to tell him all about them.

And then he started talking about the lizard that I accidentally killed the day before, saying that maybe he was a lizard spirit now, and that the other spirits would tell him that I hadn’t meant to kill him at all, and that I was only trying to help him.  He said something about how the lizard might ask God to tell me that he understood that I didn’t try to hurt him.

Talk about a gift from God…

Doe

Good for you!! Congratulations!!

Doe
I just love your posts!
Thanks for sharing!

Thanks, guys!  It IS a relief to have it out in the open at least...I just thought he'd be a little more--I don't know, impressed or something (at least as impressed as a 9-year-old gets about something his mother tells him!   ).  But when he started talking about it again last night I was just amazed--I hadn't said anything about being "protected" or anything.  I don't know--he just seems to understand stuff (which is good, because that means he can explain it to me!).

I'm just going to leave it alone now, and only talk to him about it more if he brings it up himself.  This should be interesting!

Doe

Thanks for sharing Doe, that was great.  I really enjoyed
reading it.

Hugs
Marion