If you’ve read my blog before, you know that my thirty-year-old son committed suicide over two years ago and since then I have had numerous miraculous experiences I can attribute to nothing else besides spirit. In my case I attribute them to the spirit of my son.
A few days ago, a coffee mug appeared in my house. I’m the one who buys dishes and I didn’t buy it. My mother lives with me and she has all homemade dishes since she’s a retired potter. No one in the house knows anything about this mug. The mug has a lovely saying on it by anonymous: “to the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world.” I found the mug, liked the expression, and wondered where it came from.
Later I was talking to my son about some missing things in my house I thought he could help me find and I get this message from him: Go read the mug you found! I reread it tonight and realized it was a message from him. It is really important to mothers, to know that their children love and value them. When a child suicides, there is often blame placed on the mother, that somehow it was her fault. Our culture is so quick to blame. Each situation is unique and only I know how much I loved and cared for my son. Only I know how much effort I put into being honest with him and teaching him everything I could about how to grow up self-confident and happy. I couldn’t change or protect him from the horrors of the world, nor could I protect him from traumas inflicted on him by other people.
He gave me this mug with this beautiful expression as his way of reminding me that he knows all of those things and that I am the world to him. This is a valuable message to all of us. Each of us is the world to someone.