{"id":8911,"date":"2021-08-23T14:55:17","date_gmt":"2021-08-23T18:55:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/christinekowalanimalfamily.com\/?p=8911"},"modified":"2021-08-23T15:42:17","modified_gmt":"2021-08-23T19:42:17","slug":"one-thing-you-can-do-to-stay-connected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christinekowal.net\/index.php\/2021\/08\/23\/one-thing-you-can-do-to-stay-connected\/","title":{"rendered":"One Thing You Can Always Do To Stay Connected"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" src=\"https:\/\/christinekowal.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/cropped-cropped-site-icon-t.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6891\" srcset=\"https:\/\/christinekowal.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/cropped-cropped-site-icon-t.png 250w, https:\/\/christinekowal.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/cropped-cropped-site-icon-t-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/christinekowal.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/cropped-cropped-site-icon-t-100x100.png 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>I spoke with a Dear friend today who I haven&#8217;t spoken to for a while. <\/strong>And I will add that these are different times. And a lot of us are experiencing deaths that are close and near and dear.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>As we were speaking I was asking God \/ your word, what could I give from my heart <\/strong>that might help a little. Even just a smidge. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Close your eyes. As simple as it sounds when our eyes are closed we can see and sense and understand a lot of things that we can&#8217;t when our eyes are open.<\/strong> The spirit of the one you love is right there beside you even if you can&#8217;t see their body anymore. Close your eyes and ask them a question. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Depending on how you experience things that you can&#8217;t see i.e. spirit, energy, telephone waves, atoms ect. .<\/strong> Some people see things, others feel things, others get thoughts or sentences and others just understand or we can have a smorgasbord of two or more ways of seeing with our eyes closed. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Whatever your experience. When you close your eyes you have access to another part of the world that we can&#8217;t see with our eyes open. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>If you are still too sad and you&#8217;re not getting to them: <\/strong>Close your eyes and take three deep breaths, then with eyes still closed ask a question.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>When someone you love dies and you are feeling that heaviness and sadness, know that they are right there beside you, trying to get through to let you know they&#8217;re okay.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>When our eyes are open intellectually we are believing what we see<\/strong>. Close Your eyes. There is much more to life than the intellect.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-heading\"><strong>Michael Kowal (My Father)<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"695\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/christinekowal.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Dad-at-18-695x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8921\" srcset=\"https:\/\/christinekowal.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Dad-at-18-695x1024.jpg 695w, https:\/\/christinekowal.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Dad-at-18-204x300.jpg 204w, https:\/\/christinekowal.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Dad-at-18-768x1131.jpg 768w, https:\/\/christinekowal.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Dad-at-18.jpg 990w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 695px) 100vw, 695px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>When my father passed away I was impatient to speak with his spirit.<\/strong> When someone&#8217;s physical body dies their spirit will usually stay with us for a little while. That&#8217;s not 100 %  the case but usually. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>They are trying to help us get through that difficult time.<\/strong> It&#8217;s usually about a two or three week period. Their spirit needs to &#8220;rest.&#8221; I&#8217;m going to call it rest because this is the way I understand it. They are with God \/ Consciousness \/ your word. They&#8217;re being replenished.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>When my father was resting I kept closing my eyes and asking him if he was awake yet.<\/strong> And he kept opening one eye and saying to me. &#8220;You have to wait I&#8217;m still sleeping.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When I was a little girl I used to crawl into my parents bed in the morning when they were still asleep and <strong>I&#8217;d lift one of my father&#8217;s eyelids and ask,  &#8220;dad are you awake yet?&#8221; And he&#8217;d say, &#8220;You have to wait I&#8217;m still sleeping.&#8221; <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\"><strong>So I new it was him and I new everything was going to be okay. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">To learn more about how to Stay with the ones you Love join our weekly newsletter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/christinekowalanimalfamily.us6.list-manage.com\/subscribe?u=9eb02e1031196e0707e3991b9&amp;id=9287840f7f\">Stay Connected<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I spoke with a Dear friend today who I haven&#8217;t spoken to for a while. And I will add that these are different times. And a lot of us are experiencing deaths that are close and near and dear. As we were speaking I was asking God \/ your word, what could I give from &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/christinekowal.net\/index.php\/2021\/08\/23\/one-thing-you-can-do-to-stay-connected\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;One Thing You Can Always Do To Stay Connected&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[411,31,421],"class_list":["post-8911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-death","tag-love","tag-spirit"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christinekowal.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christinekowal.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christinekowal.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christinekowal.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christinekowal.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8911"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/christinekowal.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8911\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8961,"href":"https:\/\/christinekowal.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8911\/revisions\/8961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christinekowal.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christinekowal.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christinekowal.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}