The Light Between Us: Stories from Heaven. Lessons for the Living. by Jackson Laura Lynne

Author:Jackson, Laura Lynne [Jackson, Laura Lynne]
Language: eng
Format: azw
ISBN: 9780812998382
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Published: 2015-10-26T16:00:00+00:00

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The Trapped Bee

ABOUT A YEAR AFTER the FFF event, I read for a New York City couple, Charlie and RoseAnn. I saw that they had been married a long time and that they didn’t have children. But as I further opened the door to the Other Side, a point of light appeared on my screen. I could sense that the point of light was not a person at all. It was a dog.

“I am seeing a large black dog with an S name,” I told them. Charlie and RoseAnn told me that the first dog they had together was a lovely Doberman/Lab mix named Shadow.

More points of light came through. I was dazzled by them; they were an entirely new experience for me. It wasn’t just Shadow the dog coming through. It was all kinds of different animals, points of light lined up one behind the other. The lights kept coming and coming, a whole menagerie of animals, and all with the same message. It was a message of gratitude, recognition, and love.

I felt a wave of pure love sweeping back and forth between the sitters and the Other Side. It was so intense I couldn’t make out all the animals that were there. All I knew was that there were a lot of them. I wondered what Charlie and RoseAnn had done to create such a powerful exchange of love and gratitude.

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Charlie grew up in the Bronx; RoseAnn was from Brooklyn. They were both raised in families that loved—and often saved—animals. “I had a knack for rescuing parakeets,” Charlie told me. “They’d escape their cages in someone’s apartment and end up on our fire escape. I’d throw a towel over them and get them inside. It wasn’t easy, but I wound up with five parakeets.”

For RoseAnn, it was all about feral cats and stray dogs. “There was a family of cats that lived in the storage area of our building, and my mother and I brought them in,” she said. “A mother and two kittens, Blackie and Gray. We fed them and loved them and nurtured them. The dogs we already had were pretty good about having cats around.”

When Charlie and RoseAnn started dating in their twenties, they bonded over their love of animals. Once they were together, many more strays wound up in their path. They didn’t go around looking for animals to save. The animals in need always seemed to find them.

There was Stripes, the cat who showed up on their stoop looking banged up (she’d been hit by a car and had a broken hip). There were Stars and Fang and Mommy and Heidi and Baby and Snow, feral cats they’d found in alleyways or on the street. There was a huge tabby named Reginald Van Cat and a mutt named Farfel. “We would turn a corner in Brooklyn and see two dogs chained to a fence,” says RoseAnn. “What were we supposed to do, walk away?”

But it wasn’t just cats and dogs.

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