Release the Guilt

The conference had concluded. Most attendees had gone. I sat alone on a couch in the hotel lobby. A woman reluctantly asked if she could speak with me. I invited her to sit down. 

I didn’t know it then, but she’d heard a voice the night before telling her to talk with me. She didn’t know why; she just knew. She felt compelled. She’d tried all day, but I’d been with other people.

She sat down and introduced herself as Nell Rose. She cautiously asked if I was a medium. I was about to insist I was not when she said, “Oh, of course you are, I just heard your talk about communicating with your deceased brother.”

As she spoke from my left, the soul of a young man appeared on my right. He was a well-proportioned, handsome, confident man. He said, “Tell her not to feel guilty anymore.”

Nell Rose and Jack.

I resisted. I worry people will think I’m playing on their emotions or trying to con them when I get such messages. Rather than speaking, I listened. Nell Rose told me about Jack, her son who had passed from a brain tumor. She spoke of a medical misadventure she’d felt she should have somehow prevented. I experienced her pain.

I knew the power of Jack’s message. I’d just been sent by my deceased brother to say those exact words to our father who, for more than 40 years, had felt undeserved guilt about his son’s death in a farm accident. I’d seen the message heal my father.

Overcoming my fear, I turned to Nell Rose and said, “Jack’s here. He said to tell you not to feel guilty anymore.” Tears streamed down her face, unveiling a smile of comfort and relief. She quickly understood why the voice had sent her to me. In that moment, I watched her heal. It seemed like more than a coincidence that my father’s name was also Jack.

If you’re carrying guilt, release it. It serves you no benefit. Let it go.