A Summer Reading with Shirley

My last visit with my Mother

I didn't make it up to Lily Dale last summer, so I put it high on my To Do list this summer.  This year I brought my two grand-daughters with me.  After a day and a night in Erie at Splash Lagoon, we headed toward Lily Dale.

Audrey, who is now 17, had a reading with Janice ....more about that on another post.

I didn't have an appointment with Shirley, but as luck would have it she had an opening in late afternoon.  As she started to pray, one of her candles exploded, sending glass on the floor and flames on the tablecloth!  Shirley put the fire out, left the hot glass on the floor until after the reading.

Shirley started out telling me that "Bob" was there.  Bob happens to be my father, who always comes through first.  Shirley tells me that he is with my mother.  "your mother recently passed?  within the past year?" Yes, last September.  She says she is fine.  She had a hard time passing with her breathing.  And that "Daddy" came down 3 days before she passed to give her a tour of Heaven.  He didn't want her to be afraid of the white light, thinking that she was going 'south'.  When she returned, she felt ready to leave her body.

(I called my sister, who was with my mother when she passed, and   Clarissa verified that it looked like mother was in pain and struggling for breath as she passed.  Hospice was expected the next day, so she didn't have any medication to comfort her.  My sister watched as her mouth and fingers turned blue.)

Next Shirley told me that my parents were asking me to call my "brother who plays the drums".  Wow! This is my brother Michael.  I am to  call and tell him that they are with him as he starts his new job.   According to them, he has  been anxious and depressed about this new job.

(When I returned home, Michael was the first one I called.  He was shocked when I knew that he had just started a new job two weeks ago.  He believed me when I told him about Shirley the Medium and her message.)

Next Shirley asked me who the woman was with my mother...they were like sisters.  When she told me they had a quarrel before she passed, I knew it was Aunt Lena.

After they stepped aside, someone who 'died this past January' stepped forward.  "To thank me".
Yes, that would be Mitchell, thanking me for bringing Audrey up so Janice could give her his message!

My mother and father in the 60's