If you feel a child around you, welcome it

DEAR BONNIE » Do you see children in heaven? I have a child in heaven and wonder if she is OK every day. — Taylor

DEAR TAYLOR » Yes, I do see children in heaven, and I am sorry for your loss. I believe losing a child is one of the hardest things we go can go through in life.

I would like to share with you one of the first times I ever saw a child in heaven. I was at the Omega Institute in Rhinebeck, N.Y., training at the International Mediumship Week with some of the world’s top mediums. James Van Praagh and John Holland were two of my teachers. This was my first training where I had to go and spend the week. Every day we were shown different ways to bring through spirit. On this particular day Van Praagh had us all pair up with another medium (there were 100 of us there). I was matched up with a nice woman who was a little bit older than me and who’d had more training than I at that time. This turned out to be a blessing because Judy was a wonderful help. Van Praagh asked us to give each other the name, age, and relationship of someone we wanted to bring through from the other side. Judy looked at me and said “Ben – he is my nephew and Godson and he is 5-years-old”. I looked at Judy with a little trepidation and told her I had never brought through or asked a child to come through to me before. She said, “that is why spirit put you with me.”

I did not know how I felt about asking a child in heaven to join me, but as I closed my eyes for a moment I saw Ben. I was seeing the smallest littlest boy I had ever seen appear. Ben looked more like a 3-year-old and not the 5-year-old Judy had given me. She explained that Ben had cancer and had not grown at the same rate as other children his age. Yet here he appeared before me happy and healthy-looking. He came through with vitality and full clarity. I could easily hear him as he was speaking to me. He talked and answered my questions just as any 5-year-old would.

I could see him standing before me in his little jeans and his turtleneck shirt, his dark hair cut with his bangs going straight across his forehead. He was adorable. Ben and I began to have a conversation. “Ben do you visit your mom?” “Oh yes,” he exclaimed with joy, “I play all around her feet with my truck.” Ben showed me in my mind his mother at the kitchen stove cooking. I told him “I am here with your aunt Judy,” and with his eyes full of expression he answered, “I like Aunt Judy.” But then his face softened, and he told me “I miss mommy!!,” which kind of took my breath away.

Trying my best to go on, Judy told me to ask him about his cat? “Yes, I see my cat, my cat likes to be patted just like this, down the back and up the tail.” Ben showed me the motions, doing this twice in a row. I looked at Judy and gave her his answer. “Yes, that is exactly how Ben pets his cat.” “Ben, do you play all the time?” “I play a lot” he answered with a grin, “but I learn, too,” showing me there was school in heaven.

I could have stayed there talking and interviewing Ben all day, but our time was up, and I had to say goodbye. I thanked Ben for coming to talk to me. The session ended but before I left him I told Ben I loved him. Ben didn’t want to leave — he wanted to stay chatting with me. I finally had to tell him I had to go but encouraged him to go and play with his truck as he had shown me earlier. He did just that with an adorable smile on his face.

This new experience made me both sad and happy at the same time, knowing that Ben was very much alive and doing well in heaven, but still missing his mommy here on earth, even though he was still very much around her and his favorite cat. I have had many children now come to talk to me and even wanting to show me around. I know in all my heart that they are cared for and loved by many in the spirit world. They grow at a slower pace, but do grow up to help others, even caring for the children that come after them and helping them to adjust in making heaven their home.

If you feel the presence of a child around you, there probably is one. Welcome them with an open heart, because like

Ben, they can hear you. Ben visited me a few times after coming home from school that week — I think he knew I was a little sad and that he could cheer me up with his beautiful smile. Talk to them, embrace them, and know they are there with you always and they are OK.

Psychic Medium Bonnie Page is available for private readings and classes at her center, Mystical Magical Marketplace and Messages from Heaven Healing and Learning Center, 48 Central St., Winchendon, or by calling 978-297-9790. Email questions for the column to bonniepage@verizon.net and include a phone number (not for publication). For more information about Bonnie, visit www.bonniepagemedium.com.