I would like to offer my condolensces to both you and your family. I've heard people discuss spirits saying a final goodbye before they enter the next realm.

Monique:

I am so sorry to hear about your loss. My prayers are with you and your loved ones. I believe our loved ones resting with the ALMIGHTY do visit us and try to console us when we grieve or make peace with us when there is tension. They also look over us and guide us much like our conscience.

This has happened to me too. I believe your cousin wanted to say goodbye and I guess that was her way. I hope you find peace and comfort within your soul in knowing that she loved you. May you be blessed and may GOD keep you in your hour of need.

Much luv and respect.

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Monique

May God bless and comfort you and your family during this time of sadness.

You will be in my thoughts and prayers.

To echo the sentiments of everyone else, you and your family are in my prayers.

I read the original post yesterday and last night I had a dream that everyone in my family (maternal) and my husband's family were at a family reunion. The dream included deceased members of our families as well. It was just like they never left and I was comforted.

Your comfort will come in time. God Bless.

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Monique,

I am very sorry to hear about your cousin. While I have never seen a spirit, I often feel them near. I also frequently have dreams that predict things in the future. I don't doubt your "sixth sense": we all have it. It just varies in degree by how in tune we are to it.

Monique,

You and your family have my condolences.
May God be with you in your darkest hours.

Monique, I too pray for you and your family. Just know that the same God that watches us in life, is there is death. Life doesn't end, it just continues in another state/realm. Perhaps what you saw was a premonition rather than a sprit (I noticed the times that you posted). Either way, I believe that both are possible of happening.

When I was a little girl and first moved down south, I used to catch glimpses in my peripheral vision of what appeared to be a light skinned man in a dress watching me through a side door of our house. It scared me so badly once that I ran inside and asked my mother about it. That's when she told me that my grandfather (part white/part black), who I'd never known, had died in the room connected to that door, and that he'd been ill for a long time, so he wore a bed "dress".

Monique, I am very sorry about the loss of your cousin. I have prayed that God will comfort you and your family and I will continue to do so. Go ahead and cry all you need to. Crying is a major part of the grieving process.

Monique,

My condolensces and prayers are extended to you and your family during time of intense sorrow. Please take comfort in the reading of Thessalonians 4:13-18...that scripture really got me through as I grieved over loved ones.

Godspeed,
Nikki25

You and your family are in my prayers Monique.

Monique...I offer my sincere condolences as well. I will keep you and your family in my prayers.

I DO believe that this happens, it happens to very frequently, most times it's not a serious as death, but usually, it's something serious. I think sometimes, that it's a tool that God uses to help prepare us for the news we are about to receive.

When I was a sophomore in high school, I was a member of the marching band. My cousin, who was a lot older, had told me that he wanted to me to come over that weekend so he could show me his new motorcycle. He NEVER told me what kind/color, etc. As we were on the bus, heading to a football game, I saw a bad accident, and it was a motorcycle, the driver was dead, and they had him covered with a sheet. I immediately started crying and I couldn't stop, I said that's my cousin!!! My best friend said, "Well, Frank never told you what kind of bike he had, think about all the motorcycles there are in SC, that's not him, why would you think that?" I was so shaken that I couldn't even go out on the field with the band. After the game, my mom was late picking me up. So I called my cousin's wife to see if she could come get me. She was crying and she said, "Oh, you didn't hear, Frank was killed in a motorcycle wreck"

That was only one of the things that's happened to me...most times is just an overwhelming sense/need to call someone. I got this for my grandma a couple months back, and I just said I HAVE to call Nana, that day she'd fell and broke her ankle. I got an urge to call my grandma and pop-pop, and my aunt said the ambulance had just left, he was having a heart-attack. Had an urge to call my sister in NY, and that morning, she'd stepped off the curb and gotten hit by a bus that was pulling into traffic (not serious, it wasn't going fast, but she was in the hospital for a few hours)

Anyway, I could go on and on with examples, but I talked to one of the ministers about it, and they said that it's a spirit of discernment. You are so in touch with your family and friends, that you KNOW when someone is greiving/aching/in pain, and you are sensitive to that. So DO believe in what you saw, that is just more of an affirmation of your bond with your cousin is such that even DEATH cannot break that, you are in tune with her spirit. Be Strong and We are praying for you..

Sorry about the length, ya'll

Thank you all for your prays and kind words. I needed all of them during this sad time in my life. I can only pray to God that she is at peace. I am still in shocked because she was only 19. *smiling* Everyone said we looked sooo much alike we could have been twins. I will miss her soooooo much but i believe everything will be ALRIGHT.thank you once again..may God Bless each and EVERYONE OF U.
Monique

You and your family are in my prayers.

One time this semester I was thinking about my father and how I missed him so much. I prayed and asked him to come and talk to me while I am asleep and tell me what happen with his death. I also have dreams that he came back and said that he was under police protection and that he is not the person that we buried. I actually do not think he came because I think deep down inside that I am not ready for that kind of visit or my heart is not ready. I miss him Sooooo much and there is a police officer in my home town that looks exactly like him (mouth, beard, and same shape and size of his mouth). I think that if he was alive so much would be different for my siblings that he had for another woman. I am just sad now just thinking about it.

Well be strong and everyone you are in my prayers.

Monique, I just wanted you to know that I haven't forgotten you and I hope you and your family are doing well.