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Seeing for me is believing having faith.
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In the fact that there are still things that are unseen and
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that's hard for a lot of people to understand.
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I have kids who would say, you know, if this guy Jesus could
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just appear in the backyard. You know, if the Flying Saucer
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could just land in the backyard, I believe that I can't see him.
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I can't touch him and so we've had interesting discussions
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especially with my two sons who are very in scientifically
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minded one. Is it?
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PhD in Neuroscience. Who's come to say in writing
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that I've come to see that everything is created.
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So huge thing, because we would have these fascinating
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discussions about belief, and I would talk about heaven, you
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know, in a Christian context and they would both discuss this
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idea of a Fifth Dimension. That there's a, some idea that
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there's a Fifth Dimension around us right now.
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Someday we're going to be able to, you know, penetrate the veil
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and get in there. I said well what's in there?
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Well there could be other people or Souls I guess if you want to
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look. I said so you call it the Fifth
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Dimension and I call it Heaven. We're not too far off, you know,
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so we've had that great discussion until 3 or 4 a.m.
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But this is an interesting one, so my dad passes at 3:30 in the
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morning, I was with him, he had kind of a stroke.
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He actually went through brain surgery at age 85, and the only
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reason he did was because he wanted to spend more time with
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my mom. He knew what the prognosis was,
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it was like bad bad or badder. You know, it was it was
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terminal, but he said I'm going to do it, he goes through it and
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then one of the side effects could have been something
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ruptures or something. Something happened like that.
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So he was Not conscious that were aware of, we were talking
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to him, but his was a very sudden thing.
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We got him to hospice and he passed within about a day and a
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half of this tragic ending. So I get home after being with
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him and my brother and sister and we said I said to my wife we
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should go visit mom tonight. I just felt obligated from an
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Alzheimer's standpoint. You don't really need to share
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that information with somebody who doesn't know it and I even
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called the Alzheimer's Association helpline because I
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was a bit confused. Used.
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I said, should I really be trying to tell my mom there
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isn't such a thing as closure, you know?
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Because tomorrow tonight after I tell her she's not going to
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remember it and then tomorrow she'll say where's Daddy?
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And I have to tell her that he's died again and they said no
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don't do that. You know you're just kind of
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telling her this over and over again it's just not fair.
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It's almost on the edge of abuse if you will.
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Okay. But I just wanted to go be with
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her. And so we got to the to the
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memory care unit about 8:00 at night.
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They said, oh, your mom's already gone to bed.
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She had a rough day, how's your dad doing?
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I said, well, sadly, he died this morning, and both of the
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caretakers, instantly looked at each other and said, wow, that's
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amazing. Because your mom was crying
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today multiple times, saying, why did daddy have to leave me?
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Nobody told her Kim. I mean, I don't know what the
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provision of God. Is that a spirit?
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Could leave this realm. And on the way out, could touch
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somebody but they just missed their 63rd wedding anniversary
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by a couple days when he died. So that happened, but then she
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went into something right after that called terminal agitation,
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where she was literally at the end stages of Life, which we did
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not know. And I think it accelerated, if
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you ask me, I would say it's broken, heart syndrome.
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She knew he left, she knew that he had died.
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And yet in her 6th to 7th stage of Alzheimer's.
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She couldn't really put it all together, but she just knew he
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was not there. And she stopped asking
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questions. She was not totally unhappy.
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She was not. Physically having maladies but
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she was agitated. She was walking everywhere
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trying to turn doorknobs and stuff.
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So finally, she winds up in hospice for the last two weeks
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of her life. Angela Hospice in Livonia
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Michigan which is an extraordinary place and that's
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where my dad was as well. And in this last couple weeks of
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her life, some funny things happened, she would like many
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Alzheimer's people patients those Afflicted with that.
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They kind of come in and out of Lucidity.
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So we actually had some very poignant At moments together,
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very loving and caring moments. And, and also some funny moments
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that happened that were interesting, but she started to
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see people, she was from a family of eight, born and raised
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Catholic and city of Chicago, all of her siblings had passed.
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She was the last one, she knew who I was, but there were days,
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I would walk in, and she would say, oh, there's a Richard,
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there's a John, there's Raymond, she was talking about her.
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Brothers. And I thought well that's
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interesting. She's not oxygen-deprived.
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She's not on meds that are going to alter her mind you could say
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well it's because she has Alzheimer's and yet I started to
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get the sense that she was seeing into a place that I
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couldn't see because she was lucidly using these names like
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you would anybody else like I've got five kids and there are
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times where you know, somebody walks in and I'll say hi Kelsey.
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I mean Tiffany, I mean Riley, you know, it just happens
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because I'm go through all this. Girls names right?
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And so this one happened with my mom and then I'd sit there and I
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would talk to her and I probe right say so.
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What do you see in mom? She'd say.
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Well, I I'm going up to church and she was conflating the word
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church with heaven. And I said well, what does
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Church look like? Oh, it's beautiful.
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It's got flowers. And you know Uncle John is there
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and Raymond and Dicky and start mentioning your sisters names.
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It's like whoa. And so for me as sad as you said
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that a sad and profound and as it is and I've been in the
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presence of a few other people who are experiencing, you know,
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end-of-life not like being as close as I was right to the end
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with my mom or dad Susan has experienced this my wife with
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her mom and dad. You are a privileged to think,
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whatever the mystery is, you are in the presence of someone that
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is half in this realm and half and another realm.
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And they are seeing things through a veil that Fifth
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Dimension that I was talking about.
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I've had discussions with my son's, they are seeing things
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that we can't see and so then like you I think.
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Okay well how do I support this in Scripture?
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Well, there are many visions that are related in in scripture
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but the one that comes to mind is when Stephen is being stoned
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to death and it doesn't quite explain the details of well, is
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he like he's probably right on the edge of death.
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So I don't want to get, you know, out of extra-biblical on
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this. Like, it's just my
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interpretation, but he's about to die.
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People are throwing stones at him and he says, I see Jesus
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sitting at the right hand of the father.
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He seeing into a realm, I can't see into and somehow this idea
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that you're close to dying, get you closer to that realm and
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then they would come back. This happened to Susan, she's
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from a family of five daughters and her mom.
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At the end of her life was sitting in her favorite chair
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dying literally. And kind of woke up, took a
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breath and looked around and said, look at all the angels and
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the five girls who were all present, literally thought she
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speaking about her girls, it's about us.
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And her mom was looking up saying, look at all the angels
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and then start talking to her daughter's, like they were to
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her daughter. She was seeing into a place that
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we can see. And so, as sad as it was that
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over this two weeks, I knew my mom's life was going to end, I
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thought, wow, I am standing on Holy Ground because I'm in the
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presence of someone who seeing an into a place, I can't see
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into it. And her mom was looking up
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saying, look at all the angels and then start talking to her
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daughter's, like they were to her daughter.
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She was seeing into a place that we can see.
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And so, as sad as it was that over this two weeks, I knew my
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mom's life was going to end, I thought, wow, I am standing on
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Holy Ground because I'm in the presence of someone who seeing
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an into a place, I can't see into it.