This is so awesome, and I don't understand why people that have these experiences have such diverse ones.
It always changes the person that it happens to though. It is the most life-changing thing to go through! Nothing is the same after that happens, and you want to tell everyone! LOL!
I'm happy he is going to church now. Maybe he needed to grow close to God or reach out to God and wasn't doing that. I believe God loves every being here. Even the birds, squirrels and rats! HA! The message doesn't seem to ever be clear but the memory is vibrant. For me, even 15 or so years later it is.
When I first had to move here and live with them, I was so very depressed. I felt like a faliure, unloved, unwanted... Just so discarded. I used to sit on my patio (I've since had separate patio's put in, so there's a "my patio" and "their patio") and I would just weep and weep. There were birds that slowly started landing in the bushes and trees next to the patio, and then squirrels came. It was sort of funny, but they would sit in the bushes and watch me crying. After awhile - it was interesting, like a little audience waiting for me. It stopped me from all that crying. I started bringing bread out with me. The birds loved it, and the squirrels would eat it too. Then I bought shelled nuts and would sit and take the shells off, throwing them to the squirrels. Long story short, I have birds now that almost eat out of my hands (a robin couple nested beside where I sit and raised their babies this year), and the squirrels come up to me and ask on their hind legs. I ran out of nuts one day, and ( I have named the squirrels) Sammy Squirrel jumped into my lap and stuck his head in my pants pocket (I always have a stash there). So maybe I'm nuts, but I truly believe those birds and squirrels had a mission - and I was it. I believe there are alot of things we don't understand that some animals get, because they don't have the veil over their view that we have. I believe they have what I call direct instinct. I could be wrong. I'm just one person in a whole world of people - just a little speck. It was strange how those birds and squirrels appeared out of nowhere, and stayed until I noticed them back. We all had a staring contest for about a month, before I started bringing them food, and they would be there each morning waiting for me. I went away for a week (my son's house) and my father said they weren't there? Strange. Nobody can convince me there isn't a wise being (call it God or whatever you want to) looking over us.
