We are beings who love to plan. We plan our meals, we plan to meet up with friends, we plan our kids’ activities, we plan our vacations. But have you ever thought of planning with someone how the two of you can communicate after one of you has died?
When Adrienne came to me for a reading, I could sense there was something going on with her grandfather, who was in his nineties. She explained to me that she and her daughter were living with him and that he had been ill for several years. I told her that he was fighting to stay alive because he was afraid to cross over to the other side for two reasons: he feared leaving her and her daughter alone, and he dreaded what awaited him on the other side, for he’d had many conflicts with his deceased sister and mother. I assured Adrienne that he could cross over knowing that everything here and there would be fine.
“After my reading, I told my grandfather that if he felt it was his time, then it was okay to go. I told him my daughter and I would be okay on our own, and I also threw in that he didn’t have to be afraid of his mom or sister when he got to his next life. He laughed at that and said okay. Just three weeks later, he was gone.”
Adrienne and her grandfather were spiritual people, and they talked for a couple of years about him sending her a sign from heaven.
“I told him when he was alive that after he died, I wanted a blue feather. I made it very clear that I didn’t want dimes or other coins or anything simple like that. I wanted a blue feather. We live in Saskatchewan, Canada, an area where blue feathers are almost nonexistent. The only birds we have are pretty much ravens and seagulls. I figured if I ever found a blue feather, there would be no doubt that it came from him.”
Adrienne had four sisters, two who were spiritual and two who were not at all. Arlinda was one who was not.
“When Arlinda would hear me tell my grandfather that I wanted to see a blue feather, she would say, ‘Oh yeah, me too.’ She was playfully mocking us, not really believing that she would ever see one.”
After their grandpa died, guess who the first sister was to see a blue feather?
“Our family has a business that sells appliances,” Adrienne said. “Four days after my grandfather’s death, Arlinda walked behind the shop and found the most gorgeous, brilliant blue feather any of us had ever seen. When I told my grandfather to send blue feathers, I was thinking something small like from a blue jay. I don’t know what kind of bird this one came from, but it had to be spectacular given the beauty of this feather. Arlinda was very emotional when she found it. She was so excited that she took a picture right away and sent it to all of us in a group message.”
Less than a week later, Adrienne’s other nonspiritual sister found a blue feather. It wasn’t as vibrant as the one Arlinda had found, but a blue feather nonetheless.
“Now the two of them, the sisters who never believed, talk regularly about the signs they see,” Adrienne said. “I never imagined when I asked my grandpa for this sign that it would change the lives of my two sisters who never believed. Now they believe as much as, if not more than, anybody.”
So, when did Adrienne find her first blue feather?
“I still haven’t,” she said with a chuckle. “Can you believe that? But it’s okay. I know he sent those feathers to them to raise their spiritual awareness, and it worked.”
How much more validation could Adrienne want after watching her two sisters of little faith receive exactly what she and her grandfather had discussed? It’s a rare and beautiful thing when you can plan something on this side and watch it come to fruition from the other side. The only word of caution I would throw in is to not limit yourself to looking for only a “preplanned” sign. We don’t completely know how things work on the other side, so if you ask your grandfather for a blue feather before he dies but you don’t receive one, it doesn’t mean he isn’t sending you other signs. Maybe, for whatever reason, a blue feather isn’t going to be his sign to you, but something completely unrelated will be. Remember to keep your mind open to all possibilities.