Miracle from God and my Brother Tommy

My brother passed away in 2015. Two weeks before he passed away he came to visit and we were outside drinking a few and listening to music. We always talked about odd things happening and stuff like that. This particular night we were talking about what sign if one of us died  would we give the other. We could not come to a definite sign and we were interrupted by my neighbor Ed.  I walked into the house to get something more to drink when I heard a voice saying” you guys better figure it out soon.” Well I completely dismissed that and did not think further into what the voice just said. I just went about my business and never mentioned it to my brother. He passed away two weeks later. Now had I thought about what I just heard as I was walking up the steps back into my house, I would have known I was being told that one of us wouldn't be around so figure it out.  I am kinda glad I didn’t think that far into it at the time.

I was distracted by the neighbor coming over and interrupting us. I also knew Tommy had to catch his bus soon and I was busy climbing the crooked steps into my house. Now we never did come up with a sign. Tommy had to go to catch the bus and the conversation never finished. 

Years before when my fiancee  Keith and I moved out my brother Tom gave us a housewarming gift. It was a stuffed leprechaun named Brody  which Tommy named himself and he insisted I keep him in my kitchen.  Keith  and I moved several times and Brody was placed in the kitchen of every apt we went to. Years later  Tommy and I didn’t talk for over a year and during this time we moved again. As we were unpacking Brody was pulled out and Keith said he is so dirty and never brought any luck anyway and he tossed it in the garbage. I really didn’t want to throw him away but I let Keith toss him in the garbage partly because I was still upset with whatever I was mad about with Tommy. Partly because I didn’t want to argue about it with Keith.   After Tommy and I reconciled  he asked where Brody was and I told him I had thrown him out due to his condition but my heart did break a bit because I knew this had hurt his feelings. I regretted throwing away Brody the second I did.  So when I had to tell him it hurt me as well.  

After Tommy passed away, maybe a year or even a little longer, Keith and I were going somewhere when I just pulled over and Keith said what was going on. I said I don’t know. I just felt this need to pull over and I am going into that thrift store at the corner. Keith looked puzzled and said ok but both of us know how much  I hate second hand stores because they have a funny smell. I told Keith I just felt an overwhelming feeling l like I need to stop in this store. It was a strange overwhelming feeling and I didn’t hear a voice tell me to. I just knew that is what I was supposed to do.  I was being pulled to do this and so we got out and went into the store and went our separate ways browsing in the store. I got to the second aisle and looked down into a bin where in disbelief I saw Brodie sitting right on top of other junkie stuff.  He was the only one. I picked him up and I started to cry as Keith came down the aisle.  He saw Brodie and cried as well.  Over all the years I have never seen Brody in any store. I was not looking for him but I never saw one exactly as the same Brody my brother Tom gave me. I have never seen one since.  Now a week before going into this store I said to Keith do you think my brother really loved me or do you think he mostly just took advantage of me since I would always help him out.  I know that sounds like a strange thing to ask or even think about but it popped into my brain and I wondered about it.  So back to the thrift store,, I have my Brody in hand and I actually forgot the dolls name for that moment  but Keith remembered it.  I walked around the corner and the store had a shelf of used movies. At this time we didn’t get many channels and we would buy movies or tv series so we would have something new to watch. As I walked down the aisle I could see that one of the movies was pulled out so when I reached the shelf I pulled the movie that was hanging out and it was titled “p.s. I love you”  so I started crying yet again and took that movie and Brodie and left the store.  I was not going to that store, I had no plans whatsoever to go there, yet something inside me told me to pull over and go in.  Keith and I went home and watched the movie and the dog in the movie had a name tag and the name on it was Brody.  This was my miracle from my brother Tom and Jesus and heaven On this trip that I did not plan,I got the exact Brody back that he gave me all those years ago. I got the answer to my question: did my brother really love me (which I knew he did by the way) and the name of the Leprechaun in case I forgot which I did, Keith did not but I did.   I will always remember this remarkable miracle and Brody is still in my kitchen still today and my brother's son gave me a tiny leprechaun  that Brody holds in his hand that represents my nephew, my brother's son.

In the other hand a plastic Owlet that holds his son’s daughter. If you ever wonder if God exists, remember this story because there is no denying it. God bless you all