At Peace in the Light by Dannion Brinkley & Paul Perry

Author:Dannion Brinkley & Paul Perry [Brinkley, Dannion]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 0061094463
Published: 2012-06-18T07:00:00+00:00

The same was true of my mother, Margie, who died in 1984 of lupus and Raynaud’s disease, a circulatory problem.

As her problems worsened, she was subjected to some painful and unnecessary surgery on her lungs. A few days after the surgery, I was visiting my mother in her hospital room when she told me of a visit made by a spirit.

“Dannion,” she said, her voice a whisper. “Let it stop now. Marion has come. I know it is okay to die.”

It has happened, I thought. As I held my mother’s hand, I thought about the story of Marion. She was my mother’s younger sister. When she was only fifteen years old, Marion fell out of the school bus and was crushed and killed beneath its wheels. They were the closest of friends.

Now, after all these years, my mother was telling me about Marion appearing in her room. She had come back to help my mother die.

Who better to come for Mother than Marion? I thought as I listened to Mom tell her story. No one could do it better.

It was a beautiful moment, an island of light in a sea of bleakness for the Brinkley family. Up until that point we were considering irrational ways to prolong her life. More surgery and stronger medications were being considered, only because we were fighting the notion that our matriarch was dying.

With the arrival of Marion, however, the mood changed. We began to prepare for Mom’s death. We told the doctors that there would be no more intervention to save her life. How could there be? Marion had come.

As the family sat by her bed, we reflected on all the things my mother had taught us. She was a tough and good mother, and a little neurotic on top of it all. She had no trouble pulling those three traits together to discipline me when I needed it. I had not been a good child. I was always in trouble and always more interested in fighting with the other kids than in making friends with them. I was a bully, to be sure, but I never even tried to act tough to my mother. She was the teacher in the family, and I was one of her students. She was determined to teach me about life, like it or not.

As her three children sat at her deathbed, we told stories from our childhood that made all of us laugh. We reviewed our lives together and put everything in order. As we did this, the deathbed scene became less hectic and more placid. In that sense we were all at peace with what was happening.

After seeing Marion, Mother taught me her final lesson. She died with peace and dignity, with all of her ducks in a row.

Being at a deathbed, and sometimes seeing these spirits in the room, are the most mystical moments of my life. The awareness of love. The feelings of joy and peace. The comfort of knowing that I am helping somebody at a troubled time.

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