The Calling Cards Of Spirit Whispers

When I was a teenager, my father said in a very serious tone, “I want to talk to you about something important.

My immediate thought was, I hope this is not going to be a cringe-worthy talk about the birds and the bees. Please let it not be!

But fortunately it was not about the facts of life. Instead, it was an enlightening conversation about spiritualism and the afterlife.

My father told me about his conversion from atheist to spiritualist about a decade earlier. Apparently, my mother had made a bet with him about something that he had lost. According to their agreement, if he lost, he had to accompany her to a spiritualist church to attend a service.

So they went to the Spiritualist church in London one Sunday night when Joseph Benjamin, a well-known medium at the time, was scheduled to demonstrate on the platform. Benjamin was a prominent Spiritualist medium whose mediumship was highly regarded in those days.

Although my father sat all they way in the back during the service, that didn’t stop Benjamin from locating my father in the assembled crowd and delivering a profound message from my late paternal grandfather.

The message stunned my father, especially when Benjamin told him how disappointed my grandfather was that the tools he’d left him were neglected and “rusting away in the shed. And so it was that my father became an avid believer.

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