Spirit Gifts

It quite often happens that people in spirit come and visit me in my dreams.

Last night was unusual though. I dreamed that practically all of my family on my father's side was sitting in my Grandma's living room (she passed in 1997). I was there with Uncle David, Aunty Mary, Aunty Hazel, Mum, Dad (passed in 2007) and Grandma; the only person missing from that crowd was Uncle George (passed 2002). But there was one very special person there whom I've not seen in my dreams before, although we have communicated in spirit: this was grandma's mother, who told me to call her "Aunty Polly", as the epithet "Great-Grandma" somehow didn't seem quite appropriate.

I never knew Polly in person, because she passed in January 1945, a couple of months before my Dad was born. However, Grandma talked about her so much and with such love that it felt like I did, plus I have seen and heard her in spirit. I have a couple of photos of her, dating from the 1890s and the 1930s respectively: a beautiful, slender woman with the sweetest face and smile imaginable.

In my dream, I was kneeling at the coffee table looking through some old photos, when Polly leaned forward from the couch where she was sitting and told me there was something she wanted me to have. This was a ring: I can still see it so vividly, it was a silver ring, quite a large one, with a stone which looked like a moonstone or mother-of-pearl cut to fit a rectangular setting. There were a couple of other rings I looked at too: one with a pearl, and another with a brown tourmaline, but the one I saw myself wearing at the end was the moonstone-type one.

I can still sense Polly with me while I am typing this. Now I wonder what this is all about??