Channeling My Son’s Grand-Mère

My Son: Mama, I don’t like that Grand-Mère is dead. Can you call her on your heart-phone?

Me: Ok.

Me, Channeling My Son’s Grand-Mère: Hello, Darling. It’s your Grand-Mère here. I’m glad you asked for me. Because I have something I need to talk with you about. So I want you to listen to me very carefully. Can you do that?

My Son: Mm-hmm.

My Son’s Grand-Mère: Good. Because I am your guardian angel, I happen to know a lot about you.

My Son: Mm-hmm.

My Son’s Grand-Mère: And I know you’re upset because a lot of people in your life have died.

My Son: Mm-hmm.

My Son’s Grand-Mère: And I have also noticed that a lot of times, as soon as you begin to enjoy things in your life, you stop, because you get scared that the people you love are one day going to be taken away. And so you get sad and you get involved with your screen instead of with things that are real.

My Son: Mm-hmm.

My Son’s Grand-Mère: Honey, I know you don’t like when people die. Not very many people do. But the worst thing you can do is be afraid to live.

My Son: Ok.

My Son’s Grand-Mère: I know it’s a lot to take in, that life doesn’t last forever. But the most important thing you can be sure about, is that you are alive right now. And it’s your job to celebrate that with the people who love you.

It’s your job to be nurtured by all the wonderful things life has to offer so that you get to grow and blossom.

We each have our time to blossom. But some of us are too scared to let it happen. Please don’t be scared, my sweet grandson. We’re all here in your heart rooting for you—me, along with all of your ancestors. (Even the ones I’m not particularly fond of.) But the more important point is that you only get to be you once. And I don’t want you wasting too much time being sad.

My Son: Ok.

My Son’s Grand-Mère: But if you do feel sad, you know what to do. You tell your mother to call me on her heart-phone. Remember, I’m always just a heart-phone call away.

My Son: Ok. I love you Grand-Mère.

My Son’s Grand-Mère: Oh honey. I love you too. So much.

-JLK