Thank you Bev. Coming from you that means a lot!
My nephew was aking today how and when I knew I was "gifted." I figure that this may be the place to tell you about my first sighting. Forgive me if it is long.
When I was 8 or 9 I remember playing in front of our house in the summer. My parents have a huge estate so you almost have to picture huge lawns in the front.
While playing every so often that summer I would catch a glimse of a young boy biking along side the road. I would always be distracted and/or look away. After I would do this I would think to myself that I should look again and see if I knew who he was. He would never be there. We lived in the country so there was no way he could just be hidden by buildings or just dissappear.
Other times, there was a car that drove by with out any sound and when I would look to see it again, it would be gone. But the timing never seemed right for the time that would have passed and the distance it should have gone for it to be out of sight.
My explaination to myself was that it was just my eyes. I was wearing glasses at the time and was embarrassed that my eyes could be so bad as to trick me so much. But sometimes I have to admit I had a feeling it wasn't my eyes, or my imagination. Out of fear and embarrassment, I never told anyone.
In my teenage years it was confirmed to me, in a terrifying way for me.
My cousin called me in tears telling me that she had played on a ouija board the night before and that my name had come up. No one in the group would know my name as she lived in the town and I was a village girl.
She claimed that a young child had come on and told her that he knew I could see him. I told her that ouija boards were something I didn't believe in and that evil spirits could channel themselves into it and I wouldn't believe anything that came out of one.
I was about to hang up on her when she said, " But you've seen him ride his bike by your house."
I remember the hairs on my arms standing on edge. I had NEVER breathed a word of this to anyone.
She told me that the boy said he was killed in front of our house years before, and that he was in a safe place with someone for now. But he was scared of someone or something.
So sure that there was a mistake I told her no one had ever been killed in front of our house, when my Dad interrupted me and said that there was indeed an accident in front of our house that resulted in a death. A young boy who used to live down the road that was struck down by a car while he was riding his bike.
My cousin freaked out when I confirmed this information. She told me that the boy said his name was Jason. When I inquired, my dad said, that he thought it was John or Jamie or something like that. I asked if it could have been Jason and my dad looked at me and said that yes, that was the name and how did I know that?
I saw him again after that and even had my dad take me to his parents house. They had something like 10 kids but I distinctly remember being drawn to a picture of the little boy I saw so often riding his bike by my house. I knew it was him and, as if his mother knew, she told me the story of Jason getting his bike for his birthday and wanting to take it for a ride down the road where he met his death by a hit and run driver.
About a week later coming home on the bus, I recall seeing that car parked in a house that was on the ride home in the bus. Kind of a here it is, there it isn't sort of thing. To this day, I'm positive I know where the hit and run driver lives/ed.
The questions I am still left with was what should I have done? What was the message? Who were the people he talked of? Why did he want me to help him? My cousin told me that I was the only one who could help him, but to this day, I am unclear as to what I was expected to do. Does anyone have any ideas or comments to help me solve this mystery? I've never really openly talked about this nor have I ever known a group of people who could help me with the one sighting that has bothered me for so long. I would appreciate anything.
I had once told someone about it and they told me to tell him to go to the light, but I'm not so sure that's what he wanted me to do.
Sharlene
P.S. Jody, I know you sense things. Can you put your input in here too?