Today I want to talk about where I came up with the name of my blog and social media handles – The Complete Guide to Life.
My family is big on playing Scrabble and playing Scrabble was something that my Dad and I did religiously each time I visited him over the last 20 or so years of his life. My parents had more than one Scrabble game set in their home and one or two of the sets were very old and were missing game tiles. To avoid confusion, my Dad took a post-it note one day and slapped it on the full game set – the note said COMPLETE.
When my Dad passed away, I took that post-it note off the board and made it a special keepsake (it is in a frame on my desk now – I look at it each day.)
A month or so after my Dad’s death, I decided to get on Google and search up best psychic mediums on Long Island, New York. A psychic’s name came up with good reviews and I promptly made an appointment.
When I went to see the psychic, he asked me about the piece of paper I have with my Dad’s writing on it. I explained to him the story of the post-it note with COMPLETE written on it. He replied, “Wow – that’s a very interesting word – complete – it’s very meaningful.” I hadn’t thought of it that way really but he was right.
The following week, a good friend of mine who was grieving her mother suggested that I read the book, Home with God: In a Life That Never Ends by Neale Donald Walsch. Walsh has written a series of books about his conversations with God and this book in particular covered what happens after our earthly deaths. My friend told me the book gives her so much comfort in the wake of her grief. I was eager to read it.
I ordered the book excitedly – eager for anything to provide me comfort in my grief of losing my father. In the first chapter, I read through how Walsch describes the end of our days here on earth and our return to the Kingdom of God. He describes our reunion with God as COMPLETION and the word COMPLETION printed in all capital letters.
As I read this text, I could not help but believe this was a clear connection to my beautiful, meaningful post-it note – COMPLETE. His life was COMPLETE, his journey was COMPLETE and he was not COMPLETE with God.
I did find so much comfort in the book – beyond feeling a connection with my Dad and feeling there is a heavenly message in the text. I believe the book offers comfort regardless of religion.
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