After my sister’s memorial service on June 15, I was sitting with two of Mary’s closest friends from high school, Tracy and Sue, who flew up from Fort Lauderdale for the service. Neil brought a friend, Mark Brown, over to our table and introduced use.
“Mark has a great synchronicity story, Trish, about spirit contact. You have to hear this.”
So here is Mark’s story.
“My mom was 88 last year and I was mad at myself for only seeing her once in the prior year. She lived in Arizona. I made a bet with a friend at work, who’s a misguided Yankee fan when he should be a Red Sox fan. I said to him that I would wear Yankee’s attire in the office if I did not make reservations to see my mom before the end of February. If I did make those plans, he owed me a shiny nickel. It’s important to know the shiny part of the deal. Annie, my daughter, and I went out and saw mom on President’s weekend and had a great visit. I won the nickel, but it was not that shiny. While visiting with mom, we went out to restaurants and visited with my brother out there. It was a normal visit.
“To our complete surprise, she died eight days later. We were glad that she had visits with new great grandchildren and us before she went. None of us saw it coming so all of our visits were very upbeat. Tracy, my wife, and others stated what a great way to die. At first, I wasn’t ready to hear that, but I did not want her to suffer so I think that makes a lot of sense.
“In my office, I leave nuts and gum for anyone who stops by. Sometimes, people leave change, but not most of the time. Days after the funeral, I came back to my office. Most everything was normal. I stepped out for some reason and when I came back, someone must have come in for almonds. On the floor, there was one almond and the shiniest nickel I’d ever seen. It was not from the person I made the bet with because he was not in the office that day. Surely, someone could have dropped off change, but that was the only coin visible.
“This is where you can say I’m nuts (pun intended), but I take it as a sign that mom wanted me to know that she was fine. When I told this to others in my family, two of them had their own “nickel” experiences.
“This brought me comfort and I hope this true story does the same for you.
P.S. I sent this to a person I know from coaching soccer and here was her reaction:
“I was in the middle of reading your story, Ava and I were in line at Chick Fil A ordering dinner. I hadn’t finished your story yet, but had to pull out my money to pay, which included change. (The total was $10.15). The first coin, out of all the coins, I pulled out and could have pulled out, was a very shiny nickel. I kid you not. I don’t believe in coincidences. Your mom is still okay. So, thanks for taking time to share with me. I really appreciate it.”
And thank you, Mark, for sharing this and thank you, Neil, for introducing Mark and me!! This my be the first shiny nickel story I’ve heard related to spirit contact. But I’ve learned that spirits can use virtually anything to let us know they’re fine.
Happy summer solstice to everyone!
And on the “flipside” of the planet, down here in Australia it is the winter solstice, but you guys up there enjoy your summer.
I personally prefer winter to summer, as our winters in Brisbane would be like Florida’s mild winter I would imagine.
My brother in laws’s daughter is headed to Australia at some point this winter for ski patrol. Is there a lot of snow this year?
There is a snow season in the alps region of Australia in New South Wales, Victoria and even Tasmania, but it rarely snows in my Australian state of Queensland.
I never saw snow in my life until I was 52, and that was on top of a mountain in Hobart, Tasmania, in 2016, which I wrote about in this post –
https://brizdazz.blogspot.com/2016/07/revolver.html
Wow! Interesting. I’ll have to find out where she’s headed in Australia. She delayed her trip because of Mary’s death and we have been trying to convince Neal he should go with her for a couple of weeks.
I knew I’d read that one! Mt. Wellington…now there’s an odd name synchro! No mountains here.
He should go I reckon, but he should go with his gut feeling as whether to go or not, I reckon … and maybe look for some unusual “signs” from the universe.
I went with my gut feeling when heading to Tassie and it was the best road trip I had in my life … so far.
I agree. But I think it’s tough for him to make decisions now. Mary has been gone just a matter of weeks. It was a deep shock to him.
The funny thing is that if you go on the ferry from Victoria to Tasmania now, you have to catch it from Chris Mackey’s town of Geelong, and I’m listening to an old interview I found where Chris is being interviewed by another shrink and he mentions what June the 6th means to him … and he also says the word “flipside” about 6 minutes from the end … and I had written the word “flipside” in the comments above before I heard him say it in the podcast –
https://weallwearitdifferently.com/2017/06/drchrismackey/
Chris Mackey is such an interesting and genuinely nice man.
I hope your niece isn’t heading to the Perisher Snow Resort –
https://www.news.com.au/travel/travel-updates/video-shows-nightmare-queues-at-perisher-snow-resorts-front-valley/news-story/cb8fe1bdd543f691a85042d738059020
I sent her that link and asked if she was headed there. Thanks, Daz!
Cormac McCarthy passed away exactly one week after your sister and I always remember the coin toss speech from the movie ‘No Country for Old Men’, based on Mccarthy’s book of the same name, when I hear lucky coin stories, where the criminal is going to kill the service station attendant if he loses the toss of the coin (which he doesn’t) and then the crim gives the attendant a big talk about how that coin was the attendant’s lucky coin –
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZY0DG8rUnCA
I remember that! I loved the book and the movie!