Our Loved Ones Are Always with Us

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Our Loved Ones Are Always with Us

On Father’s Day 2019, I was sitting on my porch crying and feeling sorry myself. It was my second Father’s Day without my dad.

As I cried, I felt like my dad was with me saying, “Don’t cry, Baby Girl. I’m here with you.”

Then I heard a melody in my head, and those words turned turned into the chorus of my song Baby Girl:

Then I hear you sayin’,

"No more cryin’.

Let your tears fall away.

The sun is shining, and I will love you,

always, always, my baby girl."

A year later in July 2020, I finished writing the song.

Four years later, my friend Ernie Fortunato helped me record the song.

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I don’t know what happens after we die, but since my dad’s passing in 2017, I believe more and more that our loved ones never leave us.

Yes, they are physically gone, but their love surrounds us. Part of them stays with us.

Many don’t feel this love, because they build walls around their hearts when they grieve.

These walls do not serve us.

I built walls around my heart when I experienced a lot of loss in my early life. For many years, I lived through the lens of “they’re dead and gone and that’s it.”

But when my dad died, I had done lots of inner work to open my heart, and I believe that opened me to the experience of feeling him around me.

Now, I imagine that all my loved ones are united in a loving, supportive energy around me…. a much more empowering state than thinking I was completely disconnected from them.

In many ways, I feel more connected with my dad now than I did when he was alive, because he is free from the limiting aspects of the physical world and is able to be fully present with me all the time.

I find this thought comforting, and I hope you do, too.

If your dad has passed, I hope you pause today and feel him with you.

If your dad is still here, call him, give him a hug if you can.

Our moments are fleeting.

Love each other now.

Enjoy each other now.

🩷🩵💜

Contemplation:

What if we could feel the love of everyone who has passed?

What if our loved ones are always with us?

What if we don't have to say "goodbye" but instead just have to open our hearts to feeling them in a new way?

How do these questions make you feel?