11/21/2025
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Gentle Reminders from Our Departed Loved Ones
Our loved ones
are always speaking to us,
sending tender, heart-warming signs,
in the bright flash of a robin
that pauses at the edge of your garden,
in the shimmer of sunlight
on a quiet morning,
in the sudden scent of a flower
that takes you back to another time,
gentle reminders that they are near,
even when the world feels full of absence.
Sometimes they return
on delicate butterfly wings,
or in a song drifting through a doorway
at the exact moment you needed it,
a feather resting
where no feather should be,
a sudden hush in the air
that feels like a hand
settling on your shoulder.
Ask for signs,
and they will answer
in ways that seem almost accidental,
almost,
but something in you
will recognize the truth.
Be still enough
to sense the subtle shift,
the soft flicker
at the edge of perception,
the way memory leans forward
and touches you
like a warm current.
Be present.
Be attentive.
And they will reveal themselves
again and again,
visible in the ways
only a longing heart
can see.
~ 'Gentle Reminders from Our Departed Loved Ones' by Spirit of a Hippie
โ๏ธ Mary Anne Byrne
~ Art by Olamik