I Would Like To Briefly Share A Further Thought With You About My Brother's Birthday I Wrote About On 7/9/18

When I shared with you about how I felt ashamed at my father's way that he chose to inform my mother about my brother's death via the telephone. This was I would  guess an angry man probably in shock or also hurting at the loss of his second born child and also his second son. To further expand on the story. I believe the survivors thought my brother was from a city which was miles away from where he actually was from. There was a tiny little article in one of the main newspapers making mention of trying to locate his family. I trust I am remembering this correctly. Do you see why I want to interview the survivors that may still be alive to get the timeline straight in the events leading up to the fatal boating accident. This is history for my family and it should be preserved.
When we had the Catholic Mass of the Resurrection for my brother they say there were about 500 people that attended. How do you have a funeral when there is no body to be buried? What my mother did was she purchased a beautiful tree at the Catholic cemetery where our family tends to be buried. When family members go to the cemetery they take pictures of the tree and send them to my mother. It is a beautiful tree and she added a placard to it also listing my eldest brothers name now that he is not alive. If I recall, there may be a pond by this tree.
See, I tend to ramble at times and back to the thoughts I originally wanted to share with you. God knew all along that the heart of my father would be turned to Jesus in his last days here on earth. Remember I led him to Jesus three weeks before he died. So the anger he may have tried to put on us was then taken from him and it was replaced with Jesus and His love. I may have shared this before but this is really good. It is imperative to really hear the voice of Holy Spirit in crucial times. I stayed overnight with my father at the hospice house Friday night and he died early Sunday morning. I shared with you about the banner I made and it was part of the funeral mass. Well, days prior to that when I was at the hospice house I felt led to bring it and place it on the wall for my father to see. This is so God, there was a nail already in the wall where I placed the banner. It was almost in proximity to the corner wall to my fathers right side but the main wall if that makes sense. I also followed Holy Spirits prompting to bring in a tape player and to softly play praise music. I said why Lord? To prepare him for worship in heaven, I obeyed. Holy Spirit was so much a part of this home going for my father. The only thing I do regret is not being there in enough time because hospice called and said I had time (I was probably a 1 hour drive away from it) and I did not even leave the house yet and received the call a few minutes later that he died. I wanted to be there when Jesus called him home I wanted to see the glory fill his room.
Back to the story of what happened Friday night. I was sitting to my father's right side facing him and all of a sudden I felt the presence of Holy Spirit and he clearly spoke these words to me. My father kept looking at that corner of the room where the banner was as if he was looking at something. Holy Spirit says to me "Ask your father if he see's the boys, He specifically said to me to not say his parents but to say the boys?" I could not physically see them but spirit wise I could see them if that makes sense. Here goes the rest of the conversation...I sense my brothers (who are no longer alive here on earth) are in the room with us and my father keeps looking at them. At this point my father really is not physically talking at this stage of dying. So I say to him the boys are here and they are smiling do you see them smiling. He nods his head no and I respond Dad I do not see them like you see them but I sense them smiling. That was the end of that conversation. See how important it is to hear and then respond to Holy Spirit's promptings? I could have messed up everything if in the natural a person might think the dying person's parents were there to be with him when in actuality it was his two sons, his only two sons that the had.
I encourage you to cultivate a relationship with Holy Spirit.