Darkness and Light(Shirley Smothers) My Mother, Sister, Brother and I
are checking into a hotel just a few miles
outside a small but busy
metropolitan city.
We enter the room my Dad who
passed away almost Eleven years
ago is sitting on one the beds. He has
a wide smile on his face.

We ask, "Daddy why are you here?"
He says "I wanted to see my family."
We are overcome with emotion and hug
him. We are all talking at once. Dad
interrupts us, "OK let me say this
sometimes I get lonely without loved ones."

It's seems as if only a few minutes have
passed and a man walks into the room.

He says, "It's time to go." He has coal black hair.
He is dressed in a dark suit. I say,
"No I'm not ready to say goodbye!"

I follow Dad and this stranger into
an elevator. I look away for a few seconds.

When I look back this stranger's hair is now
white. His dark suit is glowing.
He is holding a small baby wrapped in a blanket.
I ask, "What did you do with my Dad?"

The dark stranger who is now glowing says
"Sometimes we have to let go and allow our
loved ones move on."

"This Baby is your Dad I am taking him to
his new family."


I open my eyes. I am in my bedroom.
I realize this was a dream. But was it
just a dream? My daughter Amanda
Smothers tells me. The Dark stranger
represented Death. The glowing stranger represents Life.”
So you decide, "Was this just a dream?"

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