It was one ordinary afternoon, and our daughter’s friend Kate came to visit us, as she usually did
during the week. It was my daughter’s first friend she met when she came to the USA and turned
out to be her best.
She was a very nice girl with beautiful blue eyes and attention getting freckles
on her nose. Whenever she came to our house, she filled it with positive energy. She mainly
liked to talk a lot and she was quite energetic. What I liked most is that she also enjoyed coming
to talk to me. This was precisely the case this one afternoon when I was just finishing working
on one of my true stories with the other side.
She came up behind my back, lurking over my work, reading what I had written when I suddenly
felt a shift in her vibrations and some sort of sadness emitted from her. In that instant, I put down
my pen and turned around to face her. She looked at me with big sad eyes and asked: “Do you
really believe in God? Do you believe that a God exists?” I smiled at her and answered: “Of
course I believe that God exists, and I also believe that he loves us unconditionally. Even during
the hardships that my children and I are going through now due to my husband’s illness, I still
feel that God is with us and he is always showing me the path I need to go. He is giving me
strength and helping me to continue without giving up.” Kate’s face seemed to become more
doubtful as she said: “My mom believed in God too you know. She went to church every Sunday
and always prayed, well at least up until the point when my oldest brother reached the age of
four. He was a happy and healthy baby until he got his shots and become seriously ill. He started
having high fevers and after that day, he completely stopped speaking or communicating.”
“A short time after that, he started having epileptic seizures and became a prisoner in his own
body. He now needs 24-hour care and cannot express his emotions, what he needs, wants or
doesn’t want, neither verbally nor by gestures. My mom said: “How could God let something
like this happen? Jacob will never be able to experience first love or get married. He can’t even
take care of himself.” And from that day, my mom stopped believing in God.”, Kate further
explained.
Her words caused a strong energy to pass through me, including an incredibly beautiful feeling
which is hard to explain in words. This feeling usually comes to me when I feel God’s presence.
Father; I use this name for God. He speaks to me at times to give me important messages and to
help spread his mission. When this happens, I feel an overwhelming amount of love and my state
of being becomes completely calm. I looked at Kate, grabbed her by the hand I said: “I will tell
you a story my dear. This story happened in a time when even I wasn’t on this planet yet and far
before you, your brother Jacob and your middle brother Jessie were born. You were still only
little angels living in heaven. One day, God called to have a talk with you and your siblings:
“Look down at the earth my children.” He opened the clouds to show them the happenings down
on earth, particularly on one beautiful young woman. He continued to speak, his voice calm yet
stern: “This will be your mom!” and smiled. The children eagerly peered down one by one,
smiles wide, cheering aloud “Yayyyyy, our mom is so beautiful”! Just then, with a simple hand
gesture, God silenced the children and continued on: “But there is something I must tell you.
When Jacob will reach the age of four and Jessie the age of one, your mom will suffer a very
serious car accident which will leave her paralyzed from the waist down.” The children’s faces
became serious, not letting out one word. Kate was the first that dared to speak: “Father, but how
will I be born? I want to be born. And how will she be able to take care of us? “In that moment,
Jacob began to speak. He had a very serious and aged look on his face, something you would
usually see on an adult. “Father, I would like to ask you for a favor. May I please take on this
burden instead of our mother? I know she will be able to take the best care of me and she will be
able to also take care of our younger siblings.” After hearing his offer, Jessie jumped into the
conversation; “Why you Jacob? Why should it be you? I would rather it be me.” Jacob turned to
Jessie and said in a serious voice: “No Jessie. In my last life, I was blessed to have had an
amazing, loving wife and the best children and it would bring me joy if you could experience
true love and a big family in your life too.” – God listened attentively to the young children’s
conversation. After a few moments, he decided. “I will give it to you Jacob. I have given you
and everyone free will and you have made a decision. Because you have such a gracious and
pure soul, I will reward you with two gifts. The first gift will be: If you ever focus your vision
into the unknown (blank space), as many people do, and smile, you will see us from the other
side and your family will never understand it. The second gift to you will be if you should ever
hurt yourself, break a bone or fall, you will not feel any pain.”
Immediately after these words left my mouth Kate hung her arms around me, tears rolling down
her soft face. With a shaky voice she whispered in my ear: “ My brother Jacob really doesn’t feel
any pain. There is no way you could have known that “. She continued to explain a story about
him breaking his collar-bone and how the family slowly found out. It took them a long time to
discover the injury because Jacob didn’t show much emotion.
About three months after this happened, my family and I were preparing to make our move back
to Slovakia. I couldn’t leave however, without saying goodbye to Kate and her family. I went to
their house and knocked on their door. I thought about packing and everything else that comes
with moving overseas. My thoughts were suddenly interrupted by Lucie, Kate’s mom. She
opened the door and gave me a big welcoming smile and warm hug, inviting me inside. We sat
down in the living room and began to chat. “The first thing I want to say is thank you from the
bottom of my heart Andrea for the story you told Kate. It brought me a completely different
outlook on God and our whole situation.” Lucie wiped her tears as she finished the sentence.
“Don’t thank me” I said, “Thank God – I simply delivered you the letter from him.” Lucie
smiled at my words. Just then my focus turned to the movement in the room that was directly
across the living room. I stood up and walked toward the room. Directly in my view was one half
of a couch. The other half was blocked off by a wooden gate (something you would use to
childproof a home) . This was Jacobs’s room. He was sitting on the bed with a blank, soulless
look on his face, staring into space. I walked closer to the gate and said hi to him. When he
registered an unknown voice I felt him become uneasy and a bit nervous. I tried to calm him by
talking to him. I said: “Don’t worry Jacob. I’m just a friend of your mom and sister Kate. I just
want to tell you that you can let me know anything you want even if it’s just a message to your
mom. I also want you to know that I will understand you.” At this point, Jacob uneasiness
heightened, and I thought I would give him space., I went to sit down on the couch. However,
after a while Jacob stood up and came to the gate where he stayed still for a few moments until
Lucie decided to let him into the living room to sit with us. At the same time I began to catch
some information that Jacob was signaling to me and I started to describe them to Lucie: “Jacob
says how much he loves being around kids. He showed me the facility he visits. He also loves to
draw and paint.” Lucie looked at me surprisingly, stood up from the couch and brought me a
picture of the American Flag that was hung on their fireplace. “Jacob painted this” – Lucie
commented. “Jacob is also telling me how much he loves being outside in the sunshine”. By this
point, Lucie’s face had become less surprised as she agreed: “Yes, he loves spending time
outside, but we can only go out after the sun has set. The medications he takes are very sunlight
sensitive and could expose him to possible seizures. His doctor recommends that he stay out of
direct sunlight.” Jacob continued to ‘speak’ to me, only this time it was a direct message for his
mom. “Mom, please don’t be sad. Please don’t worry about me. I’m okay. I want you to know
that I chose this path and I don’t want you to spend endless amounts of money on treatments or
experiments in order to help me. I really don’t need it.” Right after, he turned around and walked
into the kitchen. Lucie, filled with emotion, couldn’t hold back her tears. She lost sight of Jacob
however, fearing that he would fall or hurt himself. His body was stick thin and frail. His
movement quite uneasy. Kate was sitting in the kitchen at the time, listening quietly to our
conversation, when she saw her brother coming into the kitchen. She slowly got up to follow
him. Jacob took an unexpected turn and headed toward the hallway that was behind the kitchen.
The hallway led to the rest of the rooms in the house.
Lucie stood there in shock. She couldn’t do anything but hold her face, with her mouth wide
open. Kate had the same look on her face. At the time, I didn’t know what was happening until
they later explained it to me. Lucie had told me that in his twenty five years of life, Jacob had
never visited the back rooms in the house. This had been the first time he did anything like this.
While I was surprised, I knew that this was his way of communicating that he understands me,
just as I had understood him. It was a surprising and beautiful feeling, that everything is possible
under God, and that our mind is limitless. Yet we humans always put limits to everything. For
God, nothing is impossible and when we start to believe in it as well, God will gradually uncover
other possibilities in our lives. The day I left Lucie’s home, I remember falling asleep with an
unexplainably beautiful feeling of God’s presence and his miracles that hide themselves even in
the smallest things. If you really want to find God, you have to look for him everywhere and in
everything. Look for him in our life, in our surroundings, in different situations that may present
themselves to us. Primarily find him in ourselves because God is everywhere and His name
love….
Some years later after we moved from the United States. I found out another element about the
story. Jessie, who was Jacob’s younger brother, had married a young girl that had twin boys from
her previous marriage and later they had a baby girl together. In the end, he really got his big and
happy family, the one that Jacob wished for him to have when they were still only angels in
heaven.
(Names of the actual characters in the story were changed in order to protect their privacy and identity)
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