[In March, 2004, Melissa, a regular visitor to Beyond Religion, posted a story here entitled "Messages From My John." This is a follow-up story.]

Something happened to me this morning that I just have to share with you. My latest signs from John/Angels/God are cardinals and blue jays. I would see them everywhere -- the cardinals would come by more than the blue jays, but I knew this was no coincidence. I started buying red cardinal things and have also planned to purchase blue jay items to remind me of my special sign.

Well, this morning I was looking at the red cardinal I had bought for a couple of bucks and have sitting on a shelf in my kitchen. I thought sadly that this "sign" from beyond was going away, that I had not seen a red cardinal in days.

I proceeded to get in my car and go to work. I have a fifteen minute trip to the main highway and, as I was driving down one of our narrow back roads, I saw a huge eighteen-wheeler Mac truck coming my way. I pulled off the road a little since he seemed to be hogging it and, boy!, did I laugh out loud when I saw what was on that big rig. It read "CARDINAL" and had a huge image of a red cardinal next to the word.

I looked up at the heavens and said, "Thank You, Thank You," and just laughed. How funny is that?

Melissa Jordan Bare

missycoffee@comcast.net

Lancaster County, PA

Posted March 20, 2004