Post edited 4:52 pm – February 1, 2011 by Awaba

SkooterMcGaven said:

2. To draw a picture for my Aunt, the image I am supposed to draw is stamped in my head. I haven't felt right enough to draw it yet but I will eventually.

3. The numbers 6-9. And how that it proves she was really there and its a VERY obvious symbol, I felt that the level of it being a very big symbol was stressed. At first I kind of laughed because of the number combination but I could not figure out what it meant.

Now, why two are significant.

3. My Aunt and Uncle are very religious. One day, on a walk, a couple weeks after her passing. My aunt asked for a sign that my cousin was up there, somewhere. As they were walking along, a yellow butterfly began flying around them for the remainder of their walk. Both my Aunt and Uncle had never seen one of that color in Missouri before. My Aunt even got it tattooed on her wrist and they strongly believe in that sign, and get to smile when they see them around. It took my mom to resolve the 6-9 mystery. "Y-e-l-l-o-w" 6 "B-u-t-t-e-r-f-l-y" 9.

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6 & 9……  if she could project an image you need to draw, why not just project an image of a yellow butterfly?  IIt sounds like grasping at straws to make sense of a dream to me.

Sharing with Stephen's sentiments Skooter, losing someone is difficult and sometimes we get reminded of them at the oddest moments.  My mom will tell me often that an expression that I say or a face that I make reminds her of my aunt that passed away years ago.   

I agree with Nosfer that the church wedding sounded like it was probably on both of your minds very heavily, but because religion was important to your cousin, you associated it with her because deep down inside, you probably knew that she would want you to get married in a church.  The fact that your aunt and uncle saw the butterfly and it stayed with them could mean that the butterfly was attracted to something, whether a scent or a color, that made it follow them throughout the walk, but as a yellow butterfly being symbolic of your cousin, associated it with a sign from her because your aunt asked for one. I wonder if they would have thought of her even if it was a monarch butterfly that behaved the same way because of the fact that it was a simply butterfly.

You came to this site looking for some other earthly
explanation for yours and your family members experiences, and I believe that in your examples, the brain associated the experience with a memory of your cousin. Skooter, I truly understand what you mean when you say "get a true opinion other then, "it was a sign from God"" because my mother's advice for any problem is always "pray about it" and sometimes, that advice isn't enough for me and leaves me frustrated and looking for more substantial advice.

Remembrances of loved ones passed often are triggered by a scent, an image, or an object and boom, we are
taken to a memory.  For example, if I smell anything remotely close to the
"big bubble" bubble gum, I think of my aunt because she used to have a
ton of it in her house. I don't believe it to be a sign from God or my aunt, more so as reminder of someone I loved.  As a believer in God and an afterlife myself, I also know that we can mistake things as signs from God or from beyond because we only look for that which makes our beliefs true. I keep threatening by skeptic brother that if I die before him, I will come back and haunt him to prove in the afterlife.  In turn, he tells me that he would see a psychiatrist first before he thinks it's me. :)

God works in mysterious ways, as the saying goes, but is it God, a passed loved one, or association that makes you remember a loved one. It could be God or a passed loved one and there is nothing wrong in believing that because it obviously brought you and your family members comfort during a difficult time and no one should take that away from you.