Butterflies, Birds, and Other Messengers from Beyond the Veil
Butterflies, Birds, and Other Messengers from Beyond the Veil “After I’m gone, look for me in birds.” Andy McMillan “Will I die, too?” Angelica, a ten-year-old dear to my heart, asked me while we sat close together on a bench in a small church cemetery. A week earlier, Angelica’s 18-year-old sister Bethany had been killed in a head-on vehicle collision on a beautiful sunny day while she was driving a back road to her volunteer job as a paramedic for the local fire department. Only a few days before, we had celebrated Bethany’s stellar life along with nearly a thousand people crowded into and overflowing from the standing room only church into an auditorium where the service was being live-streamed. Many of the attendees were Bethany’s fellow students and faculty members from the school for the gifted she had attended, laying groundwork for her planned career as a pediatric ER …