When talking to my friend Cecelia Monday night March 9,I was arranging for her to stay with Mac on Wednesday..while I was talking to her, Mac interrupted me, I asked her to hang on a minute while I spoke to him. I said, Mac, I'm on the phone, what is it. He answered: I see my brother John there, coming through the door, he has a number in his hand. I said o.k. we'll talk about that but right now I'm on the phone with Cecilia. So then I told Cecilia.(quietly)."you know Mac hallucinates he thinks he sees his brother John coming through the door, he's pointing to the window.
She said, is he pointing to the window near your computer, I answered yes, well said Cecilia, it does look like a big door there and he said the same thing to me when I was staying with him last week, he said "I see my brother John, coming for me." We both thought that was interesting, and then dropped the subject as we were making arrangements.
BUT....now we are wondering, John was eighteen years older than Mac, and was like a father to him, as Mac's dad died when he was only four. Although, John died many years ago, he always talked of him, and we kept a picture of Mac at eighteen months old sitting in his brother's arms, they are both on a big horse John at the time was about nineteen years old> Mac always loved that picture.
Mac was never a big believer of life after death, or in fact anything much to do with church or religion, (at least not since he was about forty or so..before that he was involved in church life, but got turned off.)..Now since Mac died on Tuesday, those comments about his brother John made by Mac on Monday night seem to have more of an impact..and it's especially interesting that both comments were made to two different people, myself and Cecelia...just before he died. Kind of making me wonder about life after death - or some kind of meeting of minds... that kind of thinking always left me kind of - well I wonder - hmmm what has that person been taking!! what prescription drugs has the doc ordered ..etc. Actually this is something Mac would never discuss, he did not even go near that subject. BUT, now I'm interested, would love to know that Mac will be there for ME.
I'm making arrangements with our family for a celebration of Mac's life,to take place on April 11, it was a life I'm so happy to have had a big part
in - We will be saying our goodbyes to Mac, and hmmm maybe saying hope to see you again one day, who knows where or when...but I'll be seeing him in my minds eye in all the old familiar places....g'nite.
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