DEATH AND DYING

     Recently I received a phone call from a gentleman, who said, “I understand you are the person I am supposed to call!”  He went on to say his mother was very recently diagnosed with cancer and they were taking her to Grand Rapids for aggressive treatments, and would I come to see her for a healing session before they left.

  A few weeks lapsed and again he called me. He wanted me to come to the funeral home where his mother was. He said, “I want to thank you. You were such a big help to my mother.”

  On my way to the funeral home, I tried to go over in my mind what I might have said to her in that short hour, that was of such help.  I simply couldn't remember our conversation.

   Upon arrival at the funeral home, the son told me that I had talked to her about dying, and told her of my experiences of heaven when my heart quit during a heart attack. Thus she was unafraid of the process.  He also said, “No one else talked to her of dying! No one else had prepared her.”

  I wrote of several instances similar to this in my book, Messages from Jesus.  It is always a privilege to be a part such important moments in a persons life and to help ease their passing.

  —Mary Ann Johnston