Lessons from HEAVEN

I'd lost my beautiful boy. Then he told me our shared purpose… By Nancy Myers, 69

I'd just brought my 15-month-old son, Robbie, home from the doctors after an asthma episode and now I was putting him to bed. From nowhere, a thought landed in my mind: I won't have him for long. I immediately tried to push the thought away, scooping Robbie's tiny body up for a hug. ‘No, no, no, no, no,’ I said. ‘Everything's going to be fine.’ But not long after, another sort of ‘knowing’ bedded into my brain. When I was nine, I'd lost my big brother, Craig, to an asthma attack. He was 13. Now something told me Robbie would be around twice the age Craig had been when he passed. Again, I tried to bury the new thought. But this wasn't the first time I ‘just knew’ things before…

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