The Ones That Come Before Us

I had a dream last night…

…and in it both of my grandmas and my dad who have all passed on came to visit me (my mom was there too but to be clear she is very much alive and this just happens to be one photo I could find with all of them together).

Since my dad passed about 8 years ago, I have seen and known that he is guiding me and with me in a way he maybe didn’t know how to do in his human form.

My grandmas, I have come to see, are also there in that spirit world guiding me too.

Last night was the first time all 3 have visited me at the same time, together.

(It will help paint the picture to say that I am crying as I write this — it feels so emotional to see that there are people / beings who care about you so much that they support you so fully when you believe you’ve been alone for much of your life).

My family all comes from Germany; my grandmas lived through a war while trying to build families and my mom’s mom also survived her husband who died young and she did all of these things like open a restaurant and move to the states (more than once) — and what sits so deeply with me at my age now, is that everything they went through and did, paved the way for me to be where I am today. Their lives opened up doors for me to experience a much more…