Over the past few months, I’ve had the opportunity to listen to the audio version of Awaken Your Multidimensional Soul: Conversations with the Z’s, Book Two and read To Heaven and Back: A Doctor’s Extraordinary Account of Her Death, Heaven, Angels, and Life Again: A True Story by Mary C. Neal. There was a piece on a soul’s departure in both books that made me both cry and smile, thinking of my older sister. To paraphrase, the message was that a soul may choose to depart from its human body at the time that is best for those around them.
If you’re newly grieving, it might be hard to take this in and I’d save it for a few years down the road. Personally, I can truly now celebrate Amanda’s birthday, and many of my tears are less from grief and more from gratitude.
In a way Amanda couldn’t always be in her human form, she is now a go to when I need big sis advice and guidance. She is a constant lean to, assuring me she always there in the form of butterflies, roses, Train and MB20 songs on the radio, and energy. We talk often, in a new way.
The first time I heard the message that a soul may leave at the best time for those around them, I wept in the knowing of the message’s truth and the sacrifice Amanda’s soul made, although I know sacrifice is perhaps the wrong term, or at least misconstrued in English. My path has infinitely deepened, some visible and some not, because of the physical death of my sister. Life has more meaning and I continually fight to see the beauty in the human experience as well as for the true freedom of my own soul (often trapped by the human ego.). I continually come back to the quote…
“Life is beautiful…even when it’s not.” -Amanda Rose Nypaver
Happy Amanda Day!
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