Dad's tale of his daughter's return to say goodbye ...
Goodbye Dad …
This is a personal story. Many years ago I had another daughter, she was born with a congenital heart problem which, we were told, meant she would only live a month. She lived far longer than that but died when surgeons attempted to intervene.
What has always been interesting is the many events that occurred around her when living and after she died. First of all, she was born the day the comet Hail Bopp appeared in the sky. As desperate parents do we searched the internet for information and made some good connections and learned much about the problems and more importantly about other children born at the same time. The latter was very important given what happened.
Out of the blue, a Buddhist monk contacted us via email and explained the vision he had had. He had seen our daughter sitting in a beam of light laughing. He said she was a ‘Boddhisatva of Compassion’ and had returned in spirit to earth and into Tabitha’s body. Fatalitically, he told us that the spirit would remain on earth for a cycle of around 300 days, before moving on.
https://www.learnreligions.com/whats-a-bodhisattva-450136
This was, of course, alarming but equally, it was ultimately true … Tabitha died around 8 months after her birth, and Hail Bopp also disappeared from the skies of Europe. The belief about comets being portents of doom had been proven on a personal level here. So had the monks informed prediction.
We were devasted of course, and it is an event that has shaped my life in many ways. But I did learn much about myself and my relationship with the world and after such an event I did learn the nature of compassion. But this was not the end of the story.
Some weeks later when I reluctantly entered the nursery to pack some things away. I had one of the most profound spiritual experiences of my life.
As I packed away clothes and things I began to feel the huge presence in the room. The room lightened. The hairs on my forearms stood on end and then I was overwhelmed with the smell of baby, all those smells Mums and Dads know I am talking about. I felt a weight gently alight on my shoulders, legs wrapped around my neck and fingers slipped into my hair. There was a distant baby chuckle and then, after a few moments, enough for me to realise who this was and her message, she was gone.
I had had a visitation it seemed from that spirit I knew as my daughter for a short period in my life. She came to say goodbye, but I was also sure at that meeting that we would meet again.
I cannot say I did not grieve greatly, but felt assured about the afterlife and the worlds of spirit after this visit. Although I had always been spiritual any doubt disappeared that day.
