Anyone else experienced this?

[MarieC]

I too know what you mean.  I spent quite a while trying to find a ggrandfather's grave in a very remote, sparsely settled part of Queensland.  When I did find it, and I and two cousins travelled a long way to visit it, everything seemed to be made very easy for us on the trip, our way was smoothed.  When we reached the lonely bush grave, I had the strong sensation that the old man was very pleased that we had made the effort to come and visit him!

I took some earth from his grave to mix into his wife's grave only a couple of kilometres from where I live.  OK, OK, I'm as mad as a cut snake, I admit it! 

MarieC

[KPM]

I don't think you're mad at all Marie - I think that was a lovely gesture

[stoney]

I took some earth from his grave to mix into his wife's grave only a couple of kilometres from where I live.  OK, OK, I'm as mad as a cut snake, I admit it! 

MarieC

I don't think that's mad at all - almost beautiful, in trying to reunite them in some small way!  I think you'd have to be pretty soul-less to think otherwise. What a lovely gesture on your part1 

[MarieC]

Thanks, KPM and Stoney! 

A cousin and I restored the family grave where said wife and her mother (who was a fearsome old family matriarch!  ) are buried.  As we completed our work, I had this sense of semi-regal approval.  The old matriarch was pleased that we had tidied up her grave and restored it to something she could be proud of!!! 

MarieC

[poppysmum]

hi KPM

when i read your post about the graves i had to laugh.  i made my husband pull out a half buried grave.  i had to get him to hold it up while i read what was written!  he didn't find it very funny

sometimes when i have been in a graveyard and i find the grave i am looking for i feel as though someone has shown me.  especially once when i was just about to give up and there it was staring at me

there have been other times when i fel as though someone has given me a gentle shove n the right direction.

caroline

[KPM]

Hi Caroline
What our hubby's will do for a quiet life eh?   I did suggest we took a little shovel but he thought I was joking!!

I felt very 'in touch' with my dead relatives that day and so did my mum.  It took us ages to find her grandmother's grave and at one time mum said 'Nanna's angry with us and won't show is where she is'  (we uncovered a bit of a juicy story a while back which my gr grandmother probably wouldn't have been too pleased about!) but we found her in the end - mum thinks she just wanted to make us suffer a bit

I took a photograph of my great grandparents grave and today found a photo which was taken of the grave in 1925  It was so sad to compare the two.  Today's grave looks very sorry for itself

Anne-Marie