I spoke with my brother on the phone last night. He lives in Houston, Texas and just loves it down there. He lived in NJ most of his life, but now would never live anywhere else but in the Great State of Texas!
Well...my brother was hit by a car back when he was a teenager while running across an exit ramp on a major highway in North Carolina(on his way to a concert in Georgia-secretly) He was hit so hard by that car that he flew up on the hood, then bounced off and hit the road in front of the car that hit him! He had broken both of his legs and smashed up both knees so bad that they required pins to hold them together. He has pain till this day in his knees. He ended up in a body cast up to his chest for about 4 months!
The point of this story is.....when he was brought to the hospital, and admitted to a room, he found himself next to a man who was apparently dying. While my brother was in this room alone with this poor man, he saw a bright light appear in the room near the man's bed and saw a blurry figure at the foot of the bed. There was a calming presence about this figure and my brother was not afraid. He says he knows that this was Jesus' presence there at the foot of the man's bed. I'm not sure how much time passed, but the light was soon gone along with the figure and the calming feeling. The nurse came into the room right after that and announced that the man had died. But, my brother already knew that. He knew that Jesus came and stood at the foot of the bed of this poor man to be there when he died.
My brother is not, and never was, very religious. He believes in God but never really talks about it that much. But he knows what he saw and knows what he remembers about that time in the hospital. He is convinced he saw Jesus and will swear the incident was not drug induced.
Also, my mother was very close to her mother(my grandmother). When my grandmother died, my mother was inconsolable. Her grief was something that she could not seem to shake. My mother told me that one day when she was still very sad, she was standing in the living room and saw a light and felt a calming presence in the room. She said that she knew it was her mother coming to tell her that everything was OK and to stop grieving for her. My grandmother said to be happy and go on with her life. My mother said this was real for her. She never doubted that she was visited by her mother from beyond.
I truly believe that my brother and mother were telling these stories from the heart. They felt that they were in the presence of some "higher power" who was watching out for us here on the earth.
My question is........has anyone else here, or anyone you know, had anything similar happen to them in their lives?
Mrs. Shakita