Messages from the Grave

What are messages from the grave?

Easter is often a time when we pray more. But to me, it is a time to sing more!!

My friends and I in these difficult days of the Pandemic also talked more on the phone. We talked about a lot of things, good and bad, happy and sad.

Lately we talked about the late Mr. Lee Kuan Yew "sending" a message from his grave.  Those who have been his keen and lasting admirers would like to think that he does have a message or many messages for the public. Others pooh pooh it.

My family members do believe in messages from the grave, like the Korean actors and actresses in the TV Drama. People appear in their dreams either to tell them something good or something bad.

Two  events I know of have been sort of resulting from some kind of messages from the grave. 

A church sister one day came to pastor and told him to pray about her heart palpitations which have been occurring for a while. Even though she had seen her heart specialist, and had a clean bill of health, she still had her heart palpitations. The pastor prayed with her and asked a few other church sisters to lay hands on her.

That night she had a dream and her brother spoke to her, asking her to help him with floods in his house. Immediately she knew why she had her heart palpitations. She drove to her late brother's grave and found it was already water logged due to a landslide near by. So she called her church committee and immediately they exhumed the grave and had her brother reburied in a new grave. 

Her heart palpitations stopped after that.

Sungei Merah from the Methodist Old Cemetery. 

In another case, an old widow was hesitant about a property that the government wanted to acquire and her in laws were hard to connect with because some were reticent and not in good terms. She prayed about it. Then suddenly out of the blue, one of her daughter's school mates came to visit her. He seemed to be in the know about the matter and they discussed her difficulties and awkwardness. He told her it was quite straightforward and need not worry about it.

Later her pastor also helped her pray about the legal issues. She was so worried that her nephews would think that she was going to take away their inheritance.

After prayers were said, the widow slept quite well but that very night her father in law came in her dreams and he told her every thing was arranged and she only had to sign her name . He even told her about not engaging a lawyer!! Her father in law had passed on more than 50 years ago!! But that piece of land was bought by him to be shared properly by his descendants. Everything was very proper according to his will.

Indeed the next day, the Land Office called her and said that everyone concerned had sent in written acknowledgement. Her share was unopposed as every one agreed to the shared proportions. No legal action was necessary.

My friends and I agree that God works for our good in different ways. Sometimes through dreams.

Happy Easter!!