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Flowers often appear in God winks. Here is one of my favorites:

Q: I just read your faith, miracles and Godwink column in today’s Palm Beach Post on Aug. 16, 2024. … And believe I had the most beautiful God wink of all time. After being with the man of my dreams, my perfect partner of 13 years, we went fishing one weekend at our part-time retreat. Monday, he got deathly ill all of a sudden and was dead by the following weekend (inoperable cancer). Needless to say, the devastation and grief were overwhelming. After taking a few family members to our part-time retreat after the funeral on a Wednesday, I also took one of the funeral bouquets of roses with me. Before leaving that day, I took three of the roses out to the dock and threw them into the water watching them float down the stream as I cried my eyes out and said goodbye. That weekend I went back to our retreat alone, and out to the dock again. Those three roses, that still looked as fresh as when I threw them in, came floating out from under my dock, and went on their way down the water again!

I took this as his way of telling me that everything would be OK and he was in God‘s arms. He also wanted his ashes put into this lake, which I did. This was 12 years ago and since then I’ve moved into the retreat permanently and experience the greatest calm and peace in my heart here that I couldn’t ever experience anywhere else.

Thank you for all your wonderful articles, and confirming my belief that this was truly … a God wink. – (From S in Okeechobee, Florida)

The most dramatic winks I receive involve the dead manipulating objects in strange ways. Here is a spooky one:

Q: While I was living with my parents, I purchased a grandfather clock for them as a Christmas present. After many years the cable pulleys on the clock froze, the pendulum unable to swing and the clock unable to chime.

I eventually inherited my childhood home with the clock from my parents after my father, Gene, passed away in 1991. My father had always been the cook, especially on the holidays.

My first Christmas Eve back in the house and having dinner for eight, my late husband’s brother, Gene, was cooking in the kitchen. As soon as I said “there’s another Gene in the kitchen,” the clock started chiming and the pendulum started swinging. This lasted for hours and in the past 32 years the clock has never chimed or the pendulum swung. The cable pulleys are still frozen.

Or this wink where a Cablevision remote seems to have a connection to Heaven.

Q: In the first few years of cable television, my mother had a hard time figuring out how to handle the remote controls, as there was one for the cable box and one for the TV. I finally said, “Mom, keep the cable box on all the time, just use the TV remote. That worked fine for her most of the time, but I periodically had to turn on the remote for her after she had turned it off. After mom died, I would drive to her house regularly to check the mail, pay any bills, etc. Upon entering the house, I would often see that the cable box was turned on. I turned it off. However, when I returned a few days later, the cable box was on again. At this point I called up Cablevision and asked if it was possible for a cable box to turn on by itself. I was assured that there is no way for that to happen. So now I am thinking it’s my Mom telling me she wants the box left on, but I turned it off, nonetheless. When I was preparing to leave, I was amazed to see that the box was back on! This time I said out loud, ‘OK, Mom, I get it. You want the box left on.’ After a month of this, the box stayed off. My wife had similar odd experiences following the death of her father, and they ceased after about a month. We both found it comforting to believe that one’s ‘spirit’, so to speak, lingers for about a month before finally departing.

A: It could be that it takes a month for the accounts to clear on earth and in Heaven.

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