My Mom, who *died three years ago, called me on the phone last night ~ in dreamland.
I picked up the phone, in my dream, “Hello?”
“He’s gone,” I heard my mother say.
“Who is gone, Mom? Daddy?”
It was as if she didn’t even hear my question. “I saw him go,” she said. “It was beautiful! He saw the face of Jesus!”
The thing is, while Mom has been gone for three years, Daddy *died three years before her. I realized this in the dream and I was worried that my husband had died. Or someone else close to me.
At the same time, I realized there is no such thing as time on the other side, so it doesn’t matter that Dad died first; Mom could indeed have witnessed his passing.
Whoever it was, she was absolutely thrilled to have seen it. I am happy for her and grateful that she shared it with me. Love you, Mom!
*Note: While I refer to them as having died, I know my parents’ bodies did indeed die, but they ~ their spirits, their souls, live. They now live more fully than they ever did while in the body.
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As a toddler, Sue Baumgardner made up stories for herself looking at books she could not read and later spun tales for her younger sisters. After she had her own children, she told them tales and eventually wove a new pattern into the fabric of their lives. As the three sat together, one would begin with a story idea of her own. She spoke perhaps a paragraph or two or three, then pointed to the next who would take up the thread and continue with her own evolution of the story line passed to her, until she pointed to the next. The third person wove her own ideas into the story progression. After the three each had a turn, anyone could end the story, in their turn, whenever it felt complete to them.
After her children were adults, Sue studied writing, first poetry and then prose. After six semesters in adult education, she was thoroughly hooked on the story art form. Sue continued with dozens of classes, seminars and writing retreats. She studied writing and publishing under the likes of James Patterson, Peter Behrens, and Mark Dawson.
As a contributor to the Discover Maine Magazine, Sue received her first check for her prose.
Her poetry has been published in The Aurorian.
She has six of her paperbacks along with four ebooks published. They include fiction and nonfiction for adults and fiction for Middle Readers.
Her very first publishing though began with Greeting Card Universe, where Sue’s greeting cards with verse are sold across the world.
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