Mom, Is That You? (Coffee with D)

All right. So, for the like the past two years, I've been on camera doing mostly uh my morning devotional Monday through Thursday. And today, I decided I wanted to film something that was different and that was uh more personal. Uh and in light of the fact that my mother's birthday would have been yesterday, I guess what I really want to do is just share uh an experience I had right after she passed away. Mom died uh December 17th, 2009. Um mom and I were super close. Uh we had a great relationship. Uh a great childhood. Uh she was just a great mom.

She was just one of those uh ladies who if she loved you, uh she was a bear and she was going to fight for you and she was going to support you. She was going to do everything humanly possible. uh to show that she loved you. So that was mom. I mean I could say a lot more but I really want to share with you the experience that I had. So uh to give you some context uh I am a man of faith. Um as I said I I've been doing a devotional on Zoom for the last couple years. Uh big part of my church leading men's group doing Bible studies. Uh I' I've had the the ability to read the word cover to cover multiple translations multiple times.

It's it's really become a part of who I am in my life. Uh my relationship with God. So I can share with you that uh nowhere in the Bible does it really talk about um after death. Uh other than uh that uh if you're saved, we have a seat in heaven. And there are rewards there for us when we get there. And those are loosely based on uh what you do with the gifts God gives you here on on this earth. But we won't that's not the purpose for this video. Um Hollywood likes to say that uh you know you become an angel. You die. You go to heaven and you know maybe your dad is your guardian angel.

But this just not biblical. There's nothing in there. Um angels are created beings. Humans are created beings and they're and they're very different. Well, this experience that I'm going to share with you uh is I I can't I can't go to chapter and verse to look it up. Uh there's nothing about it. It's just a personal experience to me that I'll never forget. Uh something that I can't explain other than to say it was supernatural. And so, uh it was probably about a week or 10 days after mom had passed away. And I I had built a a pretty big business up in Atlanta.

And I was actually driving home from uh Atlanta down to Tampa uh where we live. And it was a uh partly cloudy day. So it was mostly blue skies with some some clouds and and I I had a a new Chevy Tahoe and it was fully loaded all decked out and I had the sunroof open and and I was just driving home and and uh and I was mourning. I was just thinking about mom. Uh the conversations that we can't have any longer. The things that we did when you know when she was alive and the conversations I had, you know, just all those things that you I guess you think about when when someone very close to you is no longer there.

And so I was uh like I said, I was driving home. I'm on 75 South and and I was probably just uh just south of Atlanta. I had just probably just started my trip and uh again just thinking about mom and I I kind of looked up through the the sunroof and and and I don't know why. Um and I rarely ever even drove with it open. Um but I had the sunroof open and I was I was just staring you every now and would look up and I guess I was maybe talking to mom. I I I don't know or thinking about or and uh and I had my my hand on the steering wheel and my my left hand on the steering wheel is how I drive like that, you know, and my right arm on the on the on the on the armrest and and just really just thinking about mom and the windshield wipers went off and it kind of freaked me out.

And uh I get I get a little choked up even today this many years later thinking about it. And uh so the windshield wipers went off and I don't have rain sensing wipers and and I hadn't touched the stock on the steering wheel and and it certainly wasn't rain raining out and and I sat there stunned for you know I mean I don't know how long 10 seconds 20 seconds 30 seconds. I just was like what what was that? And uh and I looked up I looked up through the skylight and I and the sunroof and I said, "Mom, is that you?" And the windshield wipers went off again.

And at that moment, I just busted out crying. I probably cried for an hour. I couldn't stop. And and it's just funny that that even today even just talking about this and and uh how emotional it gets me thinking about that that that part. And so so I I I started this with the context of of you know in the word and there's nothing in the word that discusses this or talks about this. It's just not covered. And so you know I I I battle in my own mind. I'm like, "Well, man, was that was that of God? Was that mom? Uh, was that the enemy?" I I I I mean, I I I I guess my answer is is that, you know, nothing wrong came of it.

So, I I don't think so. I I don't know. I just really truly in my heart of hearts believe that that was my mom uh reaching out to tell me with with just the windshield wipers going off twice that that was my mom reaching out to tell me that uh to say goodbye to uh to tell me that she loved me to let me know that she was in a good place. Um, the night my mom died, I was there. I actually got to close her eyes. Hardest thing ever had to do in my life. Uh, so grateful that I got to be there to do that. But driving in that car on 75 South on that mostly sunny day, having the windshield wipers go off, asking mom if that's you, the windshield wipers going off again, and it never happening ever again.

I to the day I die, you couldn't convince me it was anything other than than my mom. So, uh, this is a different video, but I wanted to share it. I I I think I was able to tie in maybe, you know, some context to my faith and how it relates. Um, but something I'll never forget, something I I don't think I could ever really truly explain what it meant to me. Um, but I know I miss my mom and uh, happy birthday, Mom. Love you.

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