The Far Shore...
Its great to see this thread perculating along - great things keep happening here!
I feel a bit like a hit and run poster, but somehow I feel I need to post this one and break my silence just this once.
I have been having a restless sleep the past three nights. I slept a bit better last night, and again I am away from home on a work assignment, and woke about an hour early. When I returned to sleep I had this awesome little dream.
We have been looking after daughter Joy's dog, Kermitt the Dog, for the past few months, after she had to move out of her basement suite into an apartment. Although we love the dog like another child, our current lives don't really nurture dogs very well, and we have both been away a lot lately. With Joy's approval Lynn gave up Kermitt to a really special home where she has been boarding lately, a retired lady who already has one dog and some cats (Kermitt gets along with cats). But both of us were pretty sad about it, and I was already here in Vancouver when Lynn said goodbye to Kermitt yesterday, rather like the loss of death...
In this morning's dream I had returned home to Ucluelet and Kermitt was apparently still living with us. I asked Lynn about it, and she said yes, her spirit is still here. But the manifestation was very strong, and in the dream she was laying inside the rear porch, on her side. I knelt down and stroked Kermitt and talked to her, and the presence was extremely solid and real. It was only by focusing on her materiality that I could tell that this was not her actual bodily form, but spirit.
When I woke I felt sure that it was not just a dream about Kermitt, but an actual spiritual visit from her - the presence was so real and palpable. And she had been laying by the exit, a doorway that she almost never used in "real life" because it wasn't particularly safe for her, but the quick way to the forest that is our back yard. So this was an image of her crossing over, of beginning a new and more blesséd life.
And then in confirmation there was a very strong manifestation of Sophie, and she said that she does all things out of her love for me. And here I end my account in tears...
Goodnight, friends and fellow journeyers... the sweetest dreams...