COMPASSION

Chapter 34

Paris

Catherine is looking out the window in the library and for the first time, the fog is starting to lift. She sees a black iron fence surrounding her property. She can just barely make a road sign out. Part of it reads Cemetery but she cannot read the other half.
 
Tom enters the library and Catherine speaks to him, “ How was your sleep?”
 
Tom replies, “ Restful.”
 
“I want you to know I am not jealous of Sakura. I was shocked to hear you had a girlfriend but you are right things have changed between us. I am glad I know William is Okay and here living with you. He told me how he died. He told me about the three men that killed him. He told me he thought they were working for the Devil.”
 
 Tom looks at Catherine and says nothing.
 
Catherine continues, “Billy told me he does not hate the men who killed him but after all this time he doesn’t understand why they did what they did. He said after his soul left his body he came back home to Plains to be buried. He never wanted to look for the men who took his life. I am starting to realize emotions and feelings are not the same in this world as they were in my previous life. I am trying to grasp this energy theory but it is not easy to understand. The fog is finally lifting and I see we have a black iron metal fence around our property. I can also see the word Cemetery on the street sign.”
 
Tom replies, “Remember I told you there are different rules here. Possession of a body in the physical world if common interests are shared is possible. Another rule is everyone speaks in their own language but we all understand each other. The best rule is creating your own environment. I think you are ready to learn about this rule. If you look into the darkness and tell your mind you want to see a wall of red.”
 
Catherine stares into the darkness and a wall of red appears. 
 
“Now see a wall of green.”
 
Catherine changes the red to green. “ Tom, how did I do that?”
 
Tom tells Catherine, “Since we are in the in the Spiritual World we have the ability to create what we want to see because it is not real. I will now show you what is real. Close your  eyes and count to five then open them.”
 
Catherine does as instructed, “ One, two, three, four, five.” She opens her eyes and now realizes she is in her coffin six feet under ground. She screams out for her husband, “Tom get me out of here!” The coffin disappears and she is back in the library with Tom.
 
“Everything you see here is created by me and you are seeing it through my eyes. In reality, we are both in Plains at Sacred Heart Cemetery lying in our coffins six feet under. That is a very sad world to live in. Most souls that cross over do not want to live in that real world so when they learn they can create their own world they do. I created the fog so you would not see that we are at the cemetery.”
 
Catherine starts to tremble when she realizes where she is actually resting. She is not in her husband’s house but actually lying in her coffin at the cemetery. 
 
Tom holds her and tells her, “I told you this is not Heaven or Hell. We are in some sort of staging area for souls, spirits, ghosts, demons whatever you want to call us. If you want to create your own rooms you can. If you want flowers just imagine them. Just remember none of this is real. Your mind controls everything just as it did in the Physical World. Those doors you saw earlier are the tops of the coffins buried next to us.”
  
Catherine reaches out to her husband to share her confusion, “Tom I have learned more new information in these last several months since my death. Quite frankly it is a little too much. First I learned that I had died. When I met you again after thirty-three years
of separation. Then I possessed Jennifer, my granddaughter. Then I thought I found a girl who would help Joe only to learn she is a man eater who really likes to torture men. Then you tell me you have a Japanese girlfriend and William says he thinks he was murdered by men working for the Devil. My head is spinning from all this new information.”
 
“That is why I put the harmonica in your coffin. You should learn to play it,” Tom tells his wife. “It will take your mind off your  troubles.” 
 
Catherine picks the harmonica off her desk in the library, “ I wondered how that got in my coffin.” She opens the Blue Danube
Harmonica case and puts the harmonica to her mouth and blows. “I do not know how to play!”
 
“Catherine just blow into it. Breathe in then breathe out. Stay on one note do not move around.” 
 
This is the first time Catherine has smiled since her death. “Tom the music goes right through you. This is the sweetest gift you have ever given me. Catherine turns her
outward appearance from a worried, depressed mature woman to the young beautiful girl Tom dated before they got married. Tom is amazed he has finally got the woman back he fell in Love with before the children came into the marriage. Catherine keeps blowing notes and Tom starts to dance with his first love. The two lovers keep dancing and Tom transports the two of them to the top of the Eiffel Tower in Paris. 
 
Catherine looks around and down to the city lights. “Tom are we really in Paris?” 
 
“Yes, and I have now kept my promise to dance with you someday on top of the Eiffel Tower.”
 
 “But Tom how did you do that?”  Catherine asks in astonishment.
 
Tom explains, “Whether we travel to Manions Funeral Home or the Eiffel Tower it’s the same trip. Remember I told you we are some form of energy. That is why we can possess our loved ones by connecting into their energy field. Well, we are connecting into the energy field of the Eiffel Tower and the City of Paris. I do not know exactly how the mechanics of this energy work's but it does work. As I said you can create your environment by visualizing it. You can travel to any destination by visualizing it. You concentrate your energy and it flows to the image you are concentrating on.”

Tom gives Catherine a dozen roses and she starts to cry with joy.

Tom asks Catherine, "May I dance with you?"

Catherine replies, "Yes but tell me who is that singer and the music I hear"

"It is a new group I started to listen to. They are called Phantogram. They are very good."
 
Tom and Catherine dance for the rest of the night in the City of Lights. Finally, the Dead Couple have a brief moment of Happiness.  

Tom decides not to share his thoughts about the Devil with Catherine at this time.