A Special Birthday Surprise!

Address: Heavenward
C/O God, our heavenly Father
Beyond the clouds and our imaginations
Give to my Aunt Ruth please!

Happy Birthday Aunt Ruth,

Mom says you would have been 89 years of age yesterday. She said she wrote happy birthday to you on her calendar in her kitchen on your special day and thought of you.

Later that same morning mom said she was in the living room and could hear a sound. It sounded like a tune, Happy Birthday to You – she followed the sound and there was this little magnet shaped like a bear, (our daughter, Holly, who must have been 7 when she gave it to my mom on her birthday), out of the blue playing happy birthday –hasn’t worked in years! Mom said she got a smile on her face and she felt good knowing Aunt Ruth acknowledged mom’s remembrance of her birthday.

The bear was ragged, hat and flag the bear was holding at one time missing and really ready for the trash, but mom being the packrat she is, kept it. She said it hasn’t stopped playing since. I called mom this morning and could hear the bear in the background. Coincidence! I don’t think so. It was balm for a sister’s aching heart.

Happy Birthday Aunt Ruth! I know God’s light is shining all around you and there are lots of good gifts in heaven. I wish you could write back to us and tell us all about your final trip home.

We love you!