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My sister stood under a dim light which seemed to grow weaker and weaker. Her face was expressionless, and her arms hung limply at her sides. Like a ghost, she stood there, saying nothing, a vacant look staring straight ahead. Reaching to wrap her in my arms, I felt the pain through her chest.<\/p>\n
I looked into her eyes as I asked, \u201cAre you sure you\u2019re okay?\u201d<\/p>\n
She didn\u2019t answer, and the immediate sense of doom enveloped me. Awaking suddenly, this is the feeling that rattled me still, as I sat there recalling the dream, with a mad desire to call my sister. It being 2:00 a.m. in her time-zone, I couldn\u2019t possibly disturb her over what might only be a bad dream. What could I do!?<\/p>\n
My nervousness and movements woke my husband Brad, sensing that something was wrong. I told him I had a horrible feeling for my sister and told him of the dream. He listened intently, and when I had finished, agreed that it was too early to phone. Reassuring him I was okay, he managed to fall back asleep. \u00a0I, on the other hand, lay there thinking about my sister as I watched the clock tick-tock its slow route to 6:00 a.m. so I could phone her!<\/p>\n
After Brad and I had our morning tea together, I picked up the phone and called. Not wanting to alarm her to anything, I let her ramble on about her week, telling me of her cooking ventures, and new recipes she planned to share with the volunteers at the local church. She is my older sister of 12 years, and is the most cheerful person I\u2019ve ever met, with a voice that carries on melodically even as she speaks. She never fails to put a smile on people\u2019s faces.<\/p>\n
This morning, her stories seemed to go on forever, and I finally blurted, \u201cLin! I had a dream about you last night and woke up because of it.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cOh really? What time?\u201d she asked, and I told her it was about 3:00 a.m., so 2:00 a.m. her time.<\/p>\n
\u201cGeez, that\u2019s funny Jay. I was up at that time too. I couldn\u2019t sleep; I had the worst heartburn.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cDid you go to the hospital?\u201d I asked. Lin didn\u2019t, of course, not wanting to wake her husband up, and he hadn\u2019t been feeling well either. Despite having taken something to remedy the heartburn, it was still bothering her a great deal.<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t feel good about your heartburn, Lin,\u201d I insisted. \u201cCan you please do me a favour and go see your doctor? I\u2019m concerned about your heart.\u201d<\/p>\n
She promised she would call him that day, and that she would call me to let me know the outcome.<\/p>\n
The very next afternoon, I received a call from Lin\u2019s husband. With tremendous concern and emotion, I remember the flood of him saying, \u201cJay, I don\u2019t want to alarm you, but your sister went to see her doctor yesterday. After checking her, they had her transferred to the hospital which, thank-goodness, is just across the street! They then transferred her by air ambulance to a specialized hospital as she\u2019s had a heart attack and is not out of hot water yet. I don\u2019t know much more, but they\u2019re running more tests. At least she\u2019s in good hands. I\u2019ll be in touch when I get word. The doctors are just thankful she got there in time. I don\u2019t know what made her go, but I\u2019m sure glad she did.\u201d<\/p>\n
We chatted a bit longer about everything and I thanked him for taking the time to call me with the news. He reassured me that she would call once she had rested as ordered by her cardiologist.<\/p>\n
Could this have turned out differently had I not called my sister and told her about my dream, and my \u201cgut feeling\u201d that morning? I don\u2019t know, but I do know that I\u2019m glad that I trusted myself enough to express it the way that I felt it.<\/p>\n
Know that we are all connected, and when you get that \u201cgut feeling\u201d, give yourself permission to trust yourself and what you feel. You\u2019d be surprised what it could mean for you!<\/p>\n
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Connected? This question teases people all the time: Are we connected to each other? What the other side has taught me is that we are! In our experience of daily life, some people do feel these connections, while other people don\u2019t. I\u2019ve also referred to these connections as \u201cgut feelings.\u201d I have always been tightly […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2892,"featured_media":5559,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[277,407],"tags":[392,579,434,582,580,581,415,27],"class_list":["post-5557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-just-ask-jay","category-story-day-with-jay","tag-clairsentience","tag-connected","tag-feeling","tag-gut","tag-gut-feelings","tag-instinct","tag-intuition","tag-trust"],"yoast_head":"\n