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June 20th, 1918.
Received by James Padgett.
Washington D.C.
I am here, Helen.
Well, my dear Ned, you have had your little girl leave you, as
you now feel, but she has not left, for she will be more with you
than ever, and happier than she could possibly have been had she
remained in the body.
I was with her as she passed over and received her in my arms and
told her that she was with her mother and had nothing to fear. That
she had come to the spirit world and would now know what love and
happiness are, and that all her troubles had left her forever. I
told her that she would not have to leave you and her brothers,
except as regards her body which was no longer a part of her, and
which she would soon realize was merely a covering for herself.
She was not afraid and nestled in my arms as I kissed her and told
her that now she would understand how much her mother loved her
and how happy she would be in that love, and that in a very short
time she would be perfectly content, and feel so happy that she
had left the cares and troubles of her earth life.
I was with her before she died, and she actually saw me as I waited
at her bedside for her spirit to find a release from her body. She
recognized and talked to me and actually heard my voice as I encouraged
her and called her to come to my arms. She was not afraid and I
know that I was as visible to her as I ever was on earth.
She is now with me, or rather I am with her, and am trying to help
her realize fully that she is a spirit; and she is convinced for,
as she tells me, she remembers the many talks that you had with
her in which you told her of my coming to you and to her with all
my love and desire to make her happy, and that as she remembered
these things it seemed to be natural for her to have the experience
of having me with her as her real loving mother.
I will be with her a great deal and so will many other spirits
who love her - your parents and mine were with her when she came
over and spoke to her of their love and encouraged her to believe
that she was really with them and had nothing to fear, and that
only love was around her.
She will soon be in a better condition to appreciate her surroundings,
and then I will bring her to you and let
her tell you of her experience and her love for you and the
boys. I know that you are sorrowful to have her leave you in the
body and that your heart is very heavy, as you expected to have
her with you more intimately than ever and to find much happiness
and comfort in her presence. But dear, you must try not to worry
or grieve, for, as I have said, you have not lost her. She will
be with you more than ever and you will feel her presence and know
that she is so much happier than when a mortal.I wish that I could
make myself visible to you so that I could comfort you the more
and cause you to believe that your Baby has not left you. Let not
your belief in the fact that we are really alive go from you. We
are more alive than ever, and can love you more than when in life
on the earth. So do not grieve, but know that it will not be long
before you will be with us, and that this is a certainty.
Oh, my dear, I love you so much tonight and want to comfort you
with my love, and with the assurance that now, as you sit in your
room at night and feel lonesome and sometimes wish that baby could
be with you, I and your baby, who will soon be a bright spirit and
enjoy the happiness that love for you will bring to her, will be
with you.You, as I say, must not grieve, for you are not strong
and grief will not be beneficial to your condition of brain. Only
think of her as being a beautiful loving spirit, filled with love
for you and always glad when she can be with you, and only sorry
that you may not be able to feel her arms around you and her kisses
on your lips. You are not in condition to write more tonight and
must go to bed.
Well, dear, I wanted in the first place to encourage you and keep
you from worrying so that you would not be unhappy. And next I really
believed that she would not die, but that she would have the strength
to overcome the results of the operation; but I was mistaken and
for your sake, was as sorry as you could possibly be. We cannot
always foretell the results of contingencies affecting the material
conditions of mortals. We do not know these things as a matter of
omniscience, but merely base our conclusions on what we believe
will be the results of certain causes. I was so anxious to comfort
and relieve you from your worry, and the real fact is that you have
no cause for worry, but I did not allude to this when I told you
not to worry, for I believed that she would recover from her sickness,
and so thought the others who wrote you encouraging words. And even
Dr. Campbell thought that she would be able to withstand the results
of the operation. But in these things we cannot always judge aright.
We are not infallible and cannot always exercise the power which
we possess to bring about results that our loved ones on earth may
desire. So sweetheart, do not feel resentful because my promises
did not come true.
If you could only fully understand what the condition of your baby
is, you would not want her with you in the body. I know that you
will, at times, feel very lonesome and long for her as your dear
one of earth form and companionship, but you will soon have such
an experience with her as your spirit baby, that you will not often
sorrow because she left you. This I know without the possibility
of your being disappointed, and you must try to believe me.
Well, sweetheart, when you are a little stronger I will come and
write you more in detail about baby's passing and she will write
also. Love me and love her, and pray to the Father. Say good night.
God bless and comfort you, my dear husband.
Your own true and loving,
Helen
Note. The following funeral notice was
recently discovered. This information was published in the Baltimore
Sun on Saturday morning, 22 June 1918 as follows:
PADGETT - On Thursday evening, June 20, in Washington, Helenita
Padgett, of Washington, D.C., daughter of James E. and the late
Helen W. Padgett. Funeral at Mount Olivet Cemetery, Frederick.,
Md., at 2 o'clock Saturday afternoon, June 22.
Comment: I have long wondered if any time elapses between
physical death, and resumption of consciousness in the spirit realms.
From this message, it appears there is none at all. Which makes
the statement in the Urantia Book very curious. There it claims
it takes three days.
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