Ever since Chrissy passed away I find comfort in the little messages I get from her. So many things have happened since Chrissy has been gone. I can't remember them all so I decided now to write them down.I keep asking her for ways to let us know she is there. If I listen and pay attention, I can hear what she has to say.

Below are some of the ways I have heard her and I want to share these with you. If anyone reading this and you too have lost someone special, pay attention to what's aound you and you may be getting Messages from an Angel

Shortly after Chrissy passed away, I didn't want to exsist anymore or did I care about anything else around me.I just wanted to curl up in a ball and hopefully die. The only place I could think of to go to and be alone was our family cottage in Wisconsin. I got into Chrissy's car without telling my family and started driving there. It was about a 2 hour drive and It was in the middle of winter. The whole drive up there I cried and screamed. I had my cell phone with me but didn't expect any calls just yet. Not until my family would discover me missing. I was hoping someone would call me to stop me from going but I hadn't told anyone. I had a special antena on my cell phone that was a purple rose that would flash when a call was coming in. As I was driving and screaming out Chrissy's name asking her please let me know you are OK, the purple rose started flashing, I grabbed the phone and answered it but no one was there. I set it downand a few minutes later it flashed again, but no one was there. This repeated about seven times when I just started ignoring it. When I arrived at the cottage I took my key out to get inside and the key wouldn't work. I tried it every which way but with no luck. I sat back in the car because it was cold out. I then went back to try it again but nothing. I could not get inside. I then remembered my Uncle had said that he was going to change the lock to the cottage because he felt there were too many people who had keys to it and some of the teens would go there to hang out. So I got back in the car and drove back home. Cried myself to sleep. I didn't think anything about what had happened until in spring when my husband & I went to the cottage together for the first time since Chrissy died. My Aunt & Uncle were there too. I told my Uncle about my drive up there during the winter and said I see that you changed the lock. He said "No I Didn't" I said well my key didn't work and I proceeded to take my key to show him that it didn't work, but as I did the key went in smoothly and worked like a charm. It was then I realized that it had been Chrissy sending me a message to go back home. She tried then but I didn't listen.

Ever since then I am more aware of what happens around me and I notice those little things that are messages from an angel.

Another message was from when my Father was in the hospital and I went to visit him. It was the same hospital that Chrissy passed away in. I walked past the room that she died in. I noticed that the room wasn't occupied, so I asked the nurse at the station if it would be alright if I went in there for a few moments alone. She said it was fine so I walked in there and laying on the bed was a little purple flower. I picked it up and kept it. I knew right away that it was meant for me.

Our God-Daughter, Elaine & her husband tried for several years to have children. They went to countless doctors to try to find out why they weren't able to conceive. After numerous tries and more testing they were told that they most likely would never be able to.  They were trying to accept the fact that they would never have a child. During Chrissy's last week of life, while in a coma, Elaine & Dave asked if they could have a moment alone with Chrissy. They asked her that when she went to heaven and became an Angel if she would help them have a baby. After Chrissy passed away and what would have been Chrissy's 23rd. birthday, Elaine called me and told me that she just found out that day that her & Dave were expecting. They believed it was with Chrissy's help. Later they found out that they were expecting twins. During her pregnancy, she was told by the doctors that there were complications, that Baby B was not developing and would put baby A at risk. The doctors wanted to abort baby B. Elaine & Dave would not do it. They said that their miracle happened for a reason and it wasn't just so one of their babies would have to die. They stood their ground and kept both babies. Although Elaine did have complications during her pregnancy, she gave birth to two healthy babies. Baby A was a boy and Baby B, that the doctors told her wouldn't survive was a girl. They asked Chrissy's sister, Brittany to be Godmother to the baby girl. Before the twins were a year old Elaine was pregnant again with their third baby. They know that their children are a blessing from God, but they also thank Chrissy for putting in a good word from them.

My husband & I went to visit Chrissy's grave. While we were there talking to her we asked her for a sign that she could hear us and somehow talk to us. Just then a butterfly came and landed in front of us. It was playfully flying around her grave going from one flower to another. We thought how beautiful it was and for a moment it gave us peace.

The next day in the mail we received a Tribute card from Children's Memorial Hospital letting us know of a donation that was made in Chrissy's name. It brought tears to my eyes The front of the card was a purple butterfly. Purple was Chrissy's favorite color. The inside of the card read...

A Butterfly lights besides us like a sunbeam

And for a brief moment,

Its Glory and Beauty belong to our world

But then it flies on again

And though we wish it could have stayed

We feel lucky to have seen it.

I know this was Chrissy's way of saying Here I Am

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We have a family cottage that my grandparents had built when my Mom was a little girl. Chrissy had always loved going there and especially loved the nostalgic decorating. My Uncle painted one of the rooms there and decided not to put Grandma's shadowbox back on the wall. It's huge 4' X 2½'. with a mirror back. He asked me if I wanted it because he knew how much it would have meant to Chrissy. I put it up in Chrissy's room and put all the angel statues that people had given us since Chrissy died along with some that she had before. Everything in the shadowbox is angels. Bob and I heard a crash and ran upstairs to see what the noise was. The shadowbox had fallen off the wall about 3 feet and landed on Chrissy's Strawberry Shortcake Dollhouse and was tilted about a 45 degree angle. To our amazement not a single angel had fallen off the shelf or was moved out of position. Bob & I just looked at each other and said Chrissy.