A Mother's Day Card Sent From Heaven
by Sandy Ogle
Special occasions are particularly hard to get through after the loss of a child. I lost Rod in March of 2000 by gunshot to his forehead. Mother's Day 2000 was a very difficult day for me to get through. I was in the hospital with a blood clot in my lung, which was a complication from chemotherapy. All I could do was lie there and think and remember the past Mother's Day. Rod always made sure he got me a card and a flower for Mother's Day. We always spent time together on this day, but this year he was no longer with me. It was a horrible horrible day for me.
Mother's Day 2001 was drawing near, and I was filled with the pain of having to face it without my son here with me. Then a couple days before the big day, I walked into my bedroom and saw an envelope lying on my dresser. I walked over to it and picked it up. There was no name on the envelope so I opened it up. It was a card that Rod had sent me before he died. I had the card put up in a box of Rod's things that I planned to keep. The only person who would have had access to the box was my husband. When he got in from work I asked him if he had been in there and got the card out. He insisted that he had not. In thinking back, I did not see the card lying there when I made my bed that morning. It was lying in plain sight where it could not be missed. I started thinking, could it possibly be that Rod got it out for me? I could find no other explanation.
Then a couple days before Father's Day 2001, I opened my night stand drawer to look for a paper. The first thing I saw was an envelope that had " Dad " written on it in Rod's familiar handwriting. I picked the card up and took it out of the envelope. I was astonished to find that it was a Father's Day card that Rod had sent his dad the year before he died. Where the card came from I have no idea. All I know is that it was not in the drawer previously. I had been through the nightstand drawers two times since Rod died, and it was not there before. I had not even seen the card in all the time since Rod gave it to his dad, and the card was not even in the house. It was in our storage building packed in a box of cards and papers. The storage building stays locked, and the only ones who have access to it are myself and my husband. There is no doubt that Rod put them where we would find them. 
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