kimberlysteele | Open Post

Hi Everyone, I am mourning my father, who died this week at the age of 85. Please send your prayers for his smooth transition through the Gates. I don't have the energy to write an essay for this week, so this is a bit of an unexpected Open Post.

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From:

randomactsofkarmasc

I am so sorry to hear about your father. I will add him to my prayers, and you too, if you are accepting.

Take care.

From:

kimberlysteele

Thank you so much! Yes, prayers for him are welcome.

From:

nightwatchwaits

Let light perpetual shine upon him.

From:

kimberlysteele

Thank you.

From: (Anonymous)

..and offering prayers for your fathers onward & upward journey!
(fwiw, my Dad passed on earlier this year)

From:

kimberlysteele

Thank you! Blessings on your Dad too in his journey.

From: (Anonymous)

Memory eternal.

May you and your family be granted peace and comfort.

From:

kimberlysteele

Thank you, I appreciate it.

From: (Anonymous)

Hi Kimberly--

So very sorry to hear of your loss. I hope you have many wonderful memories of your father to help sustain you through your time of grief. Please do take good care of yourself.

Best to you and your family,
MJ from MA

From:

kimberlysteele

Thank you!

From:

boccaderlupo

My deepest condolences to you and a prayer for the departed.

Axé

From:

kimberlysteele

Thank you Axé.

From: (Anonymous)

I’m so sad for you. Of course I will add you, your father, and anyone else affected by his death to my morning prayers.

Annette

From:

kimberlysteele

I appreciate it. He will be missed for sure.

From: (Anonymous)

I am so sorry for your loss. Will hold your father in prayer.

Heloise

From:

kimberlysteele

Thank you Heloise.

From:

tamanous2020

My condolences Kim. I'll keep him in my prayers.

From:

kimberlysteele

Thank you Tamanous.

From: (Anonymous)

Deepest condolences. I lost my father in 2015, and it still feels like it only just happened.

From:

kimberlysteele

Thank you Anon. It is not going to be easy to get used to a world without him in it.

From: (Anonymous)

Very sorry to hear this Kimberly. My condolences to you and your family.

Mr Crow

From:

kimberlysteele

Thank you.

From: (Anonymous)

Praying for his smooth transition through the Gates.

I'm very sorry for your loss.

-Eugene

From:

kimberlysteele

Thank you Eugene.

From:

miow

I am very sorry to hear about your loss Kimberly. May Angels speed his soul on its way. Big virtual hug to you.

From:

kimberlysteele

Thank you so much, Miow.

From: (Anonymous)

I am so sorry to learn of your father's passing. May he be blessed. And may you and your family be blessed.

You are both in my prayers.

Valerie

From:

kimberlysteele

Thank you Valerie.

From: (Anonymous)

Blessings to you, and blessings to your father in his journey. May he be guided into the warm embrace of his ancestors.

P

From:

kimberlysteele

Thanks P. I think that is where he has been guided. Of course I could be wrong, but the messages I have gotten seem to be in line with that.

From:

jpc_w

My condolences.
He is in my prayers.

From:

kimberlysteele

Thank you so much.

From: (Anonymous)

My own dad just turned 80 and I constantly worry about this.

I'm sorry for your loss.

From:

kimberlysteele

Thank you.

The few things I feel I got right before he died were these:

-I bought my Dad convenient and comforting food, both healthy and not so healthy, despite being on a tight budget and coming from the lower middle class. Basically, 80+ is too late to worry about turning health matters around. So even though I am a whole foods, plant-based ethical vegan, I bought them meat/dairy stuff like linguini, calzones, smoked turkey, bacon, cookies, and pizza with a few ostensibly healthy things thrown in the mix such as fresh squeezed orange juice and flax crackers.

-I sensed this was coming more than a year ago and though I did not mention exactly what I thought was going to happen, I tried to accept it and act as if it could happen any day. So every time I had to leave my father's presence I told him I loved him. When someone would criticize or complain about him, I would remind him or her of one or more of his positive traits or the positive things he had done, which were too numerous to list.

-I sensed "all would be revealed" after he died, and though of course I could always be wrong, I believe I am right, at least in this case. I never told my Dad about my esoteric practices, but when he died, the spirit guides that took him revealed to him that I have been talking to the dead since the age of 12 and that I have a vivid spiritual life that provides me with certain abilities. My Dad's etheric body is still around as he has not yet been cremated, so the channel of communication is quite clear. Once he is cremated, the etheric line will be severed, but my Dad's higher self or Holy Guardian Angel has already become part of my spiritual ecosystem.

LOL true to form I've already written half a novel and could say a great deal more, so please expect the above and some expounding upon it to show up as an essay at some point.