I am always amazed at how resourceful our kids in Heaven are when they want to send a message. They go to great lengths to show validations and they are very persistent if we do not recognize them. Moreover, they want us to take care of each other while here on earth. Making sure that we are okay is very important to them. I went to a gallery-style reading in Phoenix that was given by Heather Hunter. Heather has been a friend for a long time. We held our very first meetings of Helping Parents Heal at her beautiful healing center in Cave Creek called ‘Casa Mariposa’. At the beginning of the reading, Heather told us that she had written down some information that came to her before she had arrived -some of the loved ones she was about to bring through were impatient! The very first thing that Heather said was that she saw a younger male who was a baseball player – she said it felt like he experienced anaphylactic shock - and that he had taken his life . She saw that he had been honored with a ceremony in a baseball field. I told Heather that I knew this boy and that I was friends with his mother. However, I was unsure about the part about anaphylactic shock. She continued to bring through validations. The young man said that his mom has recently been sick. He asked about his shoes: ‘Does she have my shoes? Baseball shoes?’ He also said the number ‘9’ and then once again acknowledged his mother and the fact that she was not feeling well. Although I was unsure about a few of the things that Heather said, I was certain about the baseball, that Andy had taken his own life, and that a ceremony had taken place on a baseball field in his honor. Andy was a star baseball player and his mother LeAnn created a wonderful foundation in his honor when he passed, the Andy Hull Sunshine Foundation, to raise awareness of the high rate of suicide among young people. Its motto is ‘You Matter’. I knew that I had to contact LeAnn the next morning to tell her what I had heard. I was also concerned because Andy had told me twice through Heather that his mother was not feeling well. When I phoned LeAnn the next day, my first call went straight to voicemail. Several minutes later she called me back. LeAnn was exhausted and distraught-she had been driving an RV from North Dakota to Phoenix and had stepped in a hole as she got out the driver’s side the night before. LeAnn had broken her left ankle and the hospital couldn’t do anything until the swelling went down. She was therefore driving home as quickly as possible with no pain killers and a throbbing ankle. She was in Salt Lake City and hoped to be in Phoenix the next evening. As Andy had indicated, his mom truly was not feeling well! Stunned and saddened, I asked her if there was anything that I could do to help. She told me that she would appreciate it if I could bring food to her home the next evening. Although I was very worried about LeAnn, I was also thankful that Andy had pushed me to get in touch with his mom! When I got to LeAnn’s home the next afternoon, I told her about the validations that Heather had brought through from Andy. I said that perhaps ‘anaphylactic shock’ was actually meant for someone else. She told me no--actually Andy had an allergic reaction to the medicine he was taking, Accutane, that had caused him to go into anaphylactic shock. Andy did not die from that shock. Unfortunately, he had indeed taken his own life, as he had shared through Heather. When I asked about the importance of shoes and especially of baseball shoes, she also told me that Andy had an amazing collection with many pairs of baseball shoes and every color of Vans imaginable. He even had a gold pair of Vans that he wore to his prom that matched his girlfriend’s gold dress. There was a large picture hanging in her home that was taken on the day that the ceremony was held on a baseball field in honor of Andy. In it, there were 9 young men standing on the field, all dressed in bright yellow uniforms, and holding Andy’s baseball jersey between them. This was a huge validation of the number ‘9’. This experience made me realize once again how interconnected we all are here on earth and how our children are also united on the Other Side. I know that Andy and my son Morgan are now friends and that all of our kids in spirit work hard to make sure that we are okay. The most important thing is that we recognize and acknowledge the messages that they send us. Love never dies-our kids are watching over us and they want us to be happy!