Tuesday, April 25, 2006
Good Wonderful Tuesday and Lord's Day Saints and Children of God:
I want to start the "Shared memoirs" portion of this Memorial by sharing the "miracles of God" when it was time for King Krishna to go home to the Lord Jesus. I am calling this, "Enjoying The Journey." (n.b. THANK YOU Friend Jonathan for giving me the "title".)
When our mother, Alma, and Sisters, Carolyn, V.J., and Silvi first entered the room on Thursday, April 6, 2006, the Spirit of the Lord showed me Sunny's (i.e. this is the name we called Krishna when he was growing up) Spirit above the bed... he was sitting at the head of the bed, on top of the bed, and saying "hhhhhhheeeeeyyyyyyy!!!" in his jokey, laughy kinda way. That is the FIRST vision the Spirit of the Lord gave me of him.
Through the week, the Spirit of the Lord would give me TWO additional visions... as as I prayed in the Spirit, the second vision the Lord showed me was the glimpse of the Throne Room in Heaven that Sunny saw... this day when Sunny went to the Throne Room, I was standing next to him as he stared through the doorway to the Throne of Grace... I don't recall seeing the Father on the Throne, however, that is not to say Sunny saw the same thing, because it was not revealed to me. What I did see with Sunny was a white soft room with a throne to the center-ish of the room... this day, the room was not very full... there were Saints and perhaps Angels in the distance to the left of our view sort-a mulling around in the back. It was very peaceful looking into the room. I don't know if Jesus was present either... I felt the presence of God, however, I don't think I saw the Father or the Son... once again, this may not have been the same for Sunny... I am not certain EXACTLY what he saw, but it was peaceful for the both of us. I should also mention that even though I was standing next to Sunny, it was as if I was looking in the room through him, even though I was viewing the room from my perspective. I also, I do not remember how long we stayed there, but, it was WONDERFUL!!! AMEN!!!
Next, the THIRD vision I saw was Sunny standing in a "green place"... much like a green oasis or VERY GREEN valley... yes, there was a mountain-type of range in the back... my vision of this scene was from afar... I saw Sunny "looking in amazement at where he was"... he was the only one that I could see there... I saw him stretch out his arms, and he started turning slowly as if he were saying "wwwwoooooowwwww"... as Sunny turned I saw him become clothed in a white shirt and then white pants... I did not notice what he was wearing before that... I remember that I "THOUGHT RAINBOW and FLOWING RIVER," however, I DID NOT see this... I just remembering thinking that it should be there.
By the way, this was VERY WONDERFUL to experience... I was just peaceful and excited for this to occur. During prayer almost every day and every night we were in the hospital room with Sunny, there would be "Spiritual Break-thru's" for his wife, Little Ms. Ashley, our mother, Alma, and my Sisters, Carolyn, V.J. and Silvi.
Little Ms. Ashley's Spiritual Breakthru:
One night as Little Ms. Ashley was in the hospital room alone while we were waiting on her downstairs in the mini-van, she was praying and talking to Krish (i.e. we call him Krish some times too), she was telling him what a WONDERFUL day she had shopping, eating and going around with us. Ashley came down to the car with tears in her eyes because while she was talking to his comatose body, he used all the love in his heart to move his arm/elbow "3" times... he needed her to know that he heard her and that he was "happy for her." Our mother and I went up to the hospital room with excitement in our hearts as well at this "breakthru." Sunny also moved his left arm/elbow again for my mother... I did not see any of this... my eyes were closed while I was in prayer. We started praying and then singing... our mother started singing like she used to sing in Church as a young girl... YES... our mother was brought up in CHURCH!!! She went to Methodist and Holiness Churches... she knew BEAUTIFUL old Hymns from the Saints of Old and she kept singing these BEAUTIFUL songs to her son... then, as Little Ms. Ashley and I joined her, the "song from the Spirit" broke through and the Spirit of the Lord Jesus had His way... our mother's heart was "freed" and she was given "peace that surpasses ALL understanding." There was a SWEET presence of God in the air... ssssssssssssssssoooooooooooooooooo BEAUTIFUL... AMAZING GRACE!!! AMEN!!!
Mom's, Carolyn's, Vija's and Silvi's Spiritual Breakthru:
Another night, or perhaps it was the same night, because it has been difficult to remember everything as it occured because there were so many "WONDERFUL, SPIRITUAL" things occurring, I don't remember the sequence... I've just received all of God's miracles in my heart!!! Oh AMEN again!!! Anyway, our Sister, Carolyn was praying and standing at Sunny's bedside and a "Word from the Lord" came through to her... the Spirit ministered to her heart... prophetic Words were spoken to her... to be VERY honest, I cannot remember what was said, only that the SPIRIT EXPRESSLY spoke to her. AMEN!!!
Our Sisters V.J. and Silvi also had a "breakthru," for this was one of the FEW times they were able to be "bedside" for ANY ONE going home to the Lord Jesus -- OH GLORY HALLELUJAH!!!
Daddy's/POP'S Spiritual Breakthru:
WOW on this one... however God works, He worked it out so that we had an Indian Doctor about 60-ish years old who reminded ALL of us of our daddy who went home to the Lord Jesus about "8" years ago... he had the cute little Indian accent that our daddy, Marie, had... he had white hair on the side of his head and was bald on the top of his head... he was almost the same build as "POPS!!!" oh ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha...... my heart tells me how much Sunny would have ENJOYED talking to him!!! HALLELUJAH!!!
Anyway, a day or two before we knew it was time to take Sunny off of "life support," POPS showed up - out of no where - and told us he was ONE OF HIS DOCTORS. None of us had ever seen him before nor heard of him. He told us he would be running ONE last test just to make certain there was "ABSOLUTELY, POSITIVELY NO BRAIN ACTIVITY." What was WONDERFUL about this experience, was that because the information was coming from POPS and he was so concerned, ALL of us were able to have "peace about the decision to take Sunny off of life support."
We all "joked and laughed" after about how the doctor looked just like POPS... it made our hearts JOYFUL!!! OH AMEN!!!
King Krishna's (i.e. Sunny), Ashley and Donna's Spiritual Breakthru:
On Tuesday, April 11, 2006, when, after MUCH prayer and medical tests, we were ready to put Sunny's body to rest... this was a VERY easy decision because EVERY day we entered the room, there was ALWAYS a Spirit of Peace in the room... albiet this was a very challenging process and time for his wife, Ashley. The Lord gave Little Ms. Ashley "7 days" to prepare for this decision and to say "goodbye to her husband." Little Ms. Ashley, PRAYED, SANG and LOVED him through the end. The Word of God was never so true in this room for Little Ms. Ashley... He said, He would never leave or forsake us, most particulary in times of sorrow, and, being the GREAT GOD that He is, He was TRUE TO HIS WORD!!! AMEN!!! AMEN!!! AMEN!!!
The only instruction given to my heart before Little Ms. Ashley and I went up to the room was to take my "CD player with TWO gospel CD's." This was the FIRST time I EVER was present bedside to send someone home to the Lord Jesus. Little Ms. Ashley and I arrived about 9:00 am... it was decided that she and I would be the ONLY two present in the room... we KNEW we had a "date with destiny and the Spirit of the Lord Jesus"... God only knows where one would draw strength to PRAY through this process, but, once again, it was GOD and GOD ALONE in our hearts that gave us the strength to PRAY through -- THANK YOU FATHER!!!
At first, we just started praying up to Heaven... "Father, we pray to You through the name of Your Son, Jesus the Christ"... we prayed our hearts up to Heaven... at first, we were a little lost in emotion... the Spirit quickly guided our hearts back to Heaven... then what would happen next would EVEN overwhelm me... you see, up to this date, the Spirit of the Lord has been generous with me in making his presence known to me and my children... He has been a LOVING Friend, Comforter, Father, Husband, Brother... I received the Baptism of the Holy Spirit with the evidence of speaking in tongues several years ago... He has communed with me and my children in many different ways... I've seen Him many a time... my children have also encountered Him... I've said that to say this, I ALREADY thought He had DONE MORE than enough for me and my children... BUT, He was ready to take us some place that I did not know you could go... as Little Ms. Ashley and I grew strong in prayer we started singing the following song (i.e. this is also a special song to our mother the Spirit gave her during her time of need when she was recovering in a convalesence home years earlier):
Open the eyes of my heart Lord,
Open the eyes of my heart,
I want to see you,
Open the eyes of my heart Lord
Open the eyes of my heart,
I want to see you,
I want to see you
To see you high and lifted up,
Shining in the light of your Glory,
Pour out your Power and love
As we sing HOLY, HOLY, HOLY,
HOLY, HOLY, HOLY
I want to see you.
As we continued singing this song over and over, the Spirit gently took our hearts into this song... the "Song with the Spirit" started occurring... at one point we kept singing HOLY, HOLY, HOLY... HOLY, HOLY, HOLY... HOLY, HOLY, HOLY, I want to see You... and then it HAPPENED... the Spirit told me to start swaying side to side... we were walking to the left and right of Sunny/Krish... walking him home to the Lord... I could see in front of me... I could see us going down a long corridor and then entering the Throne Room... I don't remember MUCH after that... my journey ends at the door way... I could hear a "Spirit of Rejoicing" coming out of my mouth that had a "life of its own"... I was ssssssssssssoooooooooooooo excited I recall saying to the Lord, "now don't let us get too excited that we decide we want to stay..." I knew in my heart, it was not yet our hour... I laughed out loud at the words I was too bold to say to the Lord... and, to be honest, I don't remember much after that... in the end, we may have been praying for over an hour or two, but the time cannot be accounted for... Sunny's room happened to be RIGHT next to the nurse's station and they many nurses and doctors sitting at the nurse's station witnessed what we were doing... I don't know if ANY of them were a "Believer in Christ Jesus," but, Sunny's nurse did comment to us after that she liked how we were seeing him off -- OH GLORY HALLELUJAH!!!
By the way, the nurse or someone did close the door after a while... I was afraid to close the door before hand because I did not want them to think we were doing anything strange or inappropriate... I wanted them to see and hear what we were doing, however, I was note distracted by them, nor they by us -- they appeared to be very busy... also, since Sunny was still hooked up to all of the "life support monitors," it was the nurse's discretion to close the door.
The End Of King Krishna's Journey Here On Earth:
Well, after all of what I have written, you may have been thinking that we had already taken him off of life support, but, we were just approaching that part. I joked with Krishna Jr. on the phone when I was sharing with him after all of this that the Doctor that took him off of the respirator looked a little like Dr. Kavorkian (sp?)... Sunny would have said the same thing... he was a bald headed, white Doctor, who wore glasses... he made slight conversation with the two of us, however, by this time, we had just seen the "Throne of Grace," and Little Ms. Ashley and I were elated... the Spirit of Joy had consumed us... so, even while Dr. Kavorkian was taking out the breathing tubes and turning off the life support system, I looked out the window and continued to "Praise the Lord and clap my hands."
Oh yeah, Dr. Kavorkian made a "silly comment about Sunny/Krish leaving so young"... well, Little Ms. Ashley let him know that Krish had lived a FULL life at 55 years of age... she stared with the "Billionaires Club and Hotel" he had started in South Africa, the country POPS had grown up in even though his parents were from India, and went down a little of his accomplishments from the "Black Cobra Martial Arts instructor" to all of his world-wide traveling and adventures... oh ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha...then Dr. Kavorkian said something like "you mean this guy" and once again, Little Ms. Ashley said "YES!!!" AMEN!!!
Well, we were now in the last minutes of his life... Sunny looked ssssssssooooooo peaceful... Little Ms. Ashley looked ssssssssssooooooooooooo loving... the BIGGEST BLESSING for Sunny is that he went home to the Lord Jesus TRULY loved by another WONDERFUL "child of God"... she held his hand... she kissed his lips and forehead... she caressed his hair... she sang her heart out and PRAYED for him like none other...... this was very DEAR and very BEAUTIFUL... I had a CD by John P. Kee called "He'll Welcome Me"... this is a VERY upbeat song... I played it "4" times... we were told this process usually takes about 10 to 15 minutes... however, I think it was about 30 minutes or more from the begtinning to the end... from the moment Dr. Kavorkian left the room, I lit the room up with the music, closed the hospital room door and Little Ms. Ashley and I started clapping, dancing and PRAISING God... we were JOYFUL in the Lord's presence... we were dancing like we were on American Bandstand... we we "twirling each other... we were like the Saints of old would say, "cutt'n a rug!!!" oh ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha
"WE DANCED LIKE DAVID DANCED" because we KNEW with ALL OF OUR HEARTS that we had done EXACTLY what the Spirit instructed us to do... as we did this the vital signs on the monitors began to lower little by little... there was a slow downturn on the breathing machine... his breathing would decrease from 14 down a few breaths to 12, 11, 10... then, it would jump back up... his other vitals signs on an adjacent monitor were slowly decreasing, but the breathing was a little irratic... while everything else was decreasing the breathing was fluctuating... I forgot to mention that when he was still on the respirator, at one point, I had to turn to look for Little Ms. Ashley's Bible because I, for some reason, forgot my Bible, and to my heart's surprise, I found a NEW Holy Bible laid out to Psalm 23... as the Spirit led me, I had read Pslam 23 in addition to a few verses from Psalm 21 and Psalm 24... this was VERY exciting to me to see that the Lord had prepared for needs before I knew I had a need -- Oh AMEN!!!
Anyway, as I started to say earlier, his other vital signs were decreasing, while his breathing kept creeping back up to "23" and sort-a stayed on 23... it seemed like he was going home slowly, but if Little Ms. Ashley would stroke his hand or head, his breathing and other vital signs would increase -- most WONDERFULLY to "23"... well, when his breathing stayed on "23" (i.e. as if to let us know that "it was WELL with his Soul" -- this was my Sister Silvi's evangelistic Word to us), the Spirit instructed me to have Little Ms. Ashley tell Sunny/Krish that she was "okay and that she knew what to do" -- later on Little Ms. Ashley told me that he was the MOST worried about what she would do without him... anyway, Little Ms. Ashley spoke boldly to her husband about ALL of the plans the Spirit of the Lord Jesus had put in her heart... she spoke for a few minutes... and the breathing stayed at "23"... as she finished telling her COMPLETE plans, all of a sudden the breathing machine dropped form "23" to "0" - SUNNY/KRISH IMMEDIATELY WENT HOME TO THE LORD JESUS -- OH GLORY, GLORY HALLELUJAH!!!
Don't think the Spirit of the Lord was finished being the "Living God" with the aforementioned, because there was more... because we had to drive from Sacramento, California to Las Vegas, Nevada, where Sunny was in the hospital and d had about a week of Hospital visits, restaurant-ing, shopp-ing, laugh-ing, casino-ing and yyyyyyyyyyyyyyyeeeeeeeeeeee-ing, we had to make QUICK arrangements for the cremation of the body... after I played the song for the 4th and last time, I stepped out of the room to give Little Ms. Ashley and her husband their last minutes together... this is when she gently combed, parted his hair, and made "five or six" braids of his hair to keep one for herself and to give to his four children. I went to the waiting room and was just sitting around surrounded by God's love and peace... for whatever the reason, I started thumbing through the newspaper looking for "nothing in particular," however, my eye catches an AD about cremation... I tear the ad and take it with me... about 30 minutes later when I was waiting out in front of the hospital with our mother and my sisters, I called the Funeral home to get information about the cremation, etc... "low and behold"... the hospital had just placed the SAME call to this SAME Funeral home... I barely had to give them any information, they TOOK CARE OF EVERYTHING - OH HOLY HALLELUJAH!!!
That day, we rented a moving van to pick up Little Ms. Ashley's things to drive her home to Fresno to move her back to her father's and grandmother's house. I drove the two seater van with Little Ms. Ashley... we talked about many things... we shared many things... we laughed about many things... but most of ALL, we had GREAT peace about ALL things -- for His Word says, "I can do all things through Christ which strengthens me." And, you may say, "what is that strength???" Well, the "JOY Of THE LORD IS MY STRENGTH." We were BLESSED to have God's Spirit pour out upon our hearts in a way we could never have imaged possible... truly, there are NO WORDS to EXPRESS what she and I shared with the PRIVILEGE from the Lord Jesus to be able to "escort a Saint's Soul back home." I want to take this opportunity to "THANK and PRAISE" the Lord Jesus for such a GREAT privilege!!! AMEN!!!
WE LOVE YOU JESUS... THANK YOU FOR LOVING US FIRST... AMEN AGAIN and GLORY HALLELUJAH!!!
To Kris's Family & Friends: