Geddes successfully demonstrates in myriad examples the mysteries and mysticism of life as she has experienced it, filled with a series of unique occurrences that would seem impossible if not examined as a totality through the eyes of a sensitive observer. The collection opens with memories of the author’s grandmother, resting in her bedroom due to not feeling well, during which she smilingly expressed her love for her granddaughter. The following day, urged by some inner voice, Geddes felt compelled to go to the hospital, and there learned of her beloved grandmother’s passing.

After a cousin lost her young husband, Geddes was greeted by his spirit, who “stopped by” to greet her in her workplace. Visiting her father in the hospital, she had a strong sense that his spirit had departed and then returned. At home, at the precise moment he passed away, she was suddenly, inexplicably awakened from sound sleep. Later, she and her husband felt his presence in their home for several days, and that same spirit sent messages to her cousin through a consultation with a medium. A stranger was “told” to give Geddes a golden crucfix. Similarly, a silver angel charm was found under her mother-in-law’s wheelchair, and Geddes’ sincere prayers and trust in God brought relief from chronic back pain.

Geddes, a classroom teacher for over thirty years and a composer of children’s books, has undertaken this spiritual narrative to alert her readership to the “sixth sense” that may lead them to better understand that “God plays a part in their lives.” Each story in this gently convincing volume is told clearly and as an outreach to the reader’s empathy and basic conviction of its factual events and transcendent conclusions. Geddes’ credible memories have the power to evince lively group discussion and provide an incentive for individual contemplation.

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