Grandpa’s Visitation Heightened My Spirituality

I remember it very distinctively. Almost 16 years ago, after his passing, I prayed to God that I may be able to make contact with my Grandpa. I needed to say goodbye and tell him I love him one last time. He had promised me before his passing that he would return to visit me. He kept his promise.

I decided to learn the Rosary while at a Catholic bookstore, shortly before his funeral. I was buying cross pendants for my grandma and other members of the family who wanted to wear a similar necklace my grandpa would be buried with it. I felt it would help those of us mourning to feel connected and closer to him. I think I bought ten of them. My brothers each took one, as well as my mother, and of course my grandma and a few of my cousins.

A nun at the store told me that day that if I learned the Rosary, I would be blessed. She gave me a bookmark which explained all the different blessings one is to receive if you learn and recite the Rosary every day. I decided I wanted to know how to pray the Rosary.

One of the most powerful handclasps is that of a new grandbaby around the finger of a grandfather ~ Joy Hargrove

After praying it for ten days straight, I decided I would humbly ask God to allow me to be visited by my Grandpa. As I finished praying, I just laid there in bed staring at the ceiling. All thoughts had left my mind, as if I was entering an altered state of consciousness.

Then my Grandpa appeared to me on my left side.

Grandpa did not speak. We communicated telepathically. He was so happy and alive, and looked just like I remembered him. It was a special moment during which I got to say, “I love you.” The feeling that came over me was pure bliss. It was so amazing. Words really can’t explain what it felt like, other than to say it was truly profound… and so real. There were angels present when he came to me.

This experience will stay with me forever. It was the very best gift my Grandpa could ever give me, because it once again confirmed and validated to me what I already knew to be true: that there is an afterlife and that it is good! It heightened my spirituality; it strengthened my faith. Thank you Grandpa.