CROSSING OVER WITH JOHN EDWARD

Remembering Our Sons & Daughters

air date: February 26, 2003

INTRO.....On this Crossing Over.....Their son Luke sent them signs from the other side..... But they came to John wanting something more ~ ~ ~ ~ ~

CHRISTINE.....I need one tiny bit so I will know that I am 100% sure, not 99%. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~

INTRO.....Find out how the one percent they never got from John, became Luke's greatest gift to them of all. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~

JOHN.....I want to start today's show with an important story, one I think gets to the very heart of why I do Crossing Over. Every day on this show you watch me do Gallary readiings, but most people who come to the Gallary never get read, and many of them are deeply dissapointed. Well that was the case for parent's Christine and Robin who had traveled a great distance to get here and then they never heard from their son on the other side. After I finished with the Gallary that day Christine asked me a question that many people that don't get readings would like to know.....Why. Well, I hope that the answer I gave will help make it clear that you don't need a reading to get a message. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~

CHRISTINE.....The reason we came was to hear from our 21 year old son who died in April. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ROBIN.....We just want to make sure he is okay. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~

CHRISTINE.....I was hoping for just some small validation from John that my son is really able to communicate....and whe didn't get that. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~

JOHN.....ok one more question, right there. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ CHRISTINE....we started watching your show probably about a year ago. And I told my husband, I feel like we are watching this for a reason, we're being prepared for something. Then probably, maybe 3.... 4 months after that we had a SEVERE loss. And we've come a long way to get here.... and I, you know, just feel like it, the way it happened that we got here it was all set up. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~

JOHN.....stop right here. This is important, and even though you didn't get a message I am going to force the producers to use this question because it is something that is one of the most important feelings and things I want people to understand. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~

CHRISTINE.....Luke was 21 years old, he was born in 1979 in Soda Springs, Idaho. He could play any instrument, just pick it up and start playing, he was very gifted with that. He was also gifted in the fact that he loved people, he trusted them. There was nothing wrong with Luke, he was perfectly healthy. He was at home alone. We had been trying to contact him and couldn't get him that day, but we didn't think anything of it, I mean, he's 21 years old, he runs around all over the place, we didn't think that much of it. And uh, he had died....about 3:30 in the morning from Acute Broncho Pneumonia ~ ~ ~ ~ ~

JOHN.....You said you had been watching this program because you felt you were being prepared for something. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ CHRISTINE.....right ~ ~ ~ ~ ~

ROBIN... My wife was at home by herself and had just finished watching the daytime John Edward show and he had just finished talking about even though you can hug your loved ones physically, you can hug them spiritually. And she said Luke....Give me a spiritual hug. At that instant the phone rang from your office with tickets. So we KNEW we were going to get a reading today. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ CHRISTINE....We thought we were. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~

ROBIN....And when John said it was wrapping up we couldn't believe it, because Luke hadn't come not in the way we were hoping for. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~

JOHN.....Your got here for a reason and that's to prepare you for something else. It's to prepare you for an understanding of the process. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ CHRISTINE....Oh ~ ~ ~ ~ ~

ROBIN.....This is all new to us and we don't know how to do this and we're having a real tough time. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~

JOHN.....There is no bigger gift that you can leave here with than an understanding that you don't need me. Now not that you would have liked to have left with a message, but I also feel that your family and friends, or whoever it is that's crossed and I'm sorry for your loss. They saw this as a way of getting you here to get you to understand that this is real. Not just to read you. You see, for me, the reading is nice and it's great to hear, but I have to tell you, I would not trade my own experiences for a hundred million readings at all, because there is no bigger gift that you can give them back than the acknowledgement that they are still there. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~

CHRISTINE.... We've had so many things happen to us since he died. Just unbelievable things have happened. My son's car was sitting in the driving, had been locked up, hasn't been touched and I told my husband that I needed to go back in and get something. While I was in there I spoke to my son outloud and I said "Luke, please, please give me some kind of sign that you are around. And backing out of the driveway, the emergency flashers on my son's car came on. They just came on. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ROBIN..... By themselves. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ CHRISTINE....And we just got out and sat on the driveway for an hour and watched them blink until we just turned them off. I mean, how does something like that happen. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~

JOHN.....You got here, to be a part of this, to see it first hand, live, unedited. You see what happens as it happens, to give you the opportunity to know first hand that life and love are indeed eternal. That they are still connected to you. That's the important thing. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~

CHRISTINE..... It just, you know, I'm 99% sure. I've had tons of things happen to me. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ JOHN.....so you don't need me ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ CHRISTINE.....yes, but I need one tiny percent so that I will know that I am one hundered percent sure not 99% sure. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ JOHN.....That's not my job. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ CHRISTINE....I know ~ ~ ~ ~ ~

JOHN.....And this is really important, because you're, you're brave enough to verbalize it, other people just leave devistated. And I am clear on the fact that if you were supposed to get read you would have been read. That you've been given a bigger message. You know what I'm saying. Everybody here leaves with that same message. Some people just leave with their relatives delivering it. But it's their relatives that are delivering it for all of us that are here. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~

ROBIN.....Things John said were really taken to heart, that we need to take a close look at where we are in our grieving process, because I don't know where I am, because I've never done this before, fortunately and it's something I hope no parent ever has to go through. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~

JOHN.....There is a process and their is a journey and that is something that counceling, time, faith....that's what happens. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~

ROBIN.....Luke never did anything really straight forward, so if we would have come, got a reading, just like we wanted, just like we expected.....that probably wasn't Luke anyway. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~

JOHN.....So I want to honor your space and say I understand completely where you're at. You opened your soul and you were very brave to acknowledge what you acknowledged, and I appreciate that, but you have to take my expertise, I've been doing this for 17 years ~ ~ ~ ~ ~

ROBIN.....As parents we're responsible for teaching our children....well, now we have to turn that around. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~

CHRISTINE.....I guess what Luke is trying to do is make us realize that we can't do this by ourselves. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~

ROBIN.....If we would have gotten a reading, I would have helped us, but now that we didn't it's still gonna help us, but now it can help thousands and thousands of other people. Thank you Luke... ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ CHRISTINE.....Thanks Luke ~ ~ ~ ~ ~

JOHN.....Christine and Robin never got the messages that they originally hoped to hear from Luke that day. What they did get from him is even better. It was an understanding that messages come to us in many different ways and you don't need a medium to receive them. Messages also come as we are ready and able to hear them and that depends on where you are in your process of grieving. So please remember that no medium is a substitute for counceling and the support of your loved ones as you grieve. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~

JOHN.... My thanks to everyone on today's show and I especially want to thank Christine and Robin and their honesty in the Gallery and their willingness to share Luke's story with all of us. Remember you don't need a medium to tell you that your loved ones that have crossed over are still around. ~~~~~

JOHN.... You should appreciate the people that are in your life today. Communicate with them and validate what they mean to you.....including those who have crossed. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~

THE LUCKY ONES

....by Christine Ross in memory of Lucas Christopher Ross 1979 - 2001

The day that we came to Crossing Over,
We so desperately wanted to hear from our son,
So many things happened to bring us there,
We felt strongly that we were.....THE LUCKY ONES.

Anticipation swelled within our hearts,
As others heard from loved ones past,
We waited.....oh so anxiously,
Then John said, "This is the last".

The LAST! .....He must be joking,
What the heck is going on,
Everything fell into place to be here,
We know Luke didn't steer us wrong.

No reading, No message,....or so we thought,
We didn't understand and it didn't seem fair.
Although John told us we got so much more,
We went home defeated and in despair.

But time has passed and we realize,
Luke still has so very much to say,
And more than that Luke wants us to know,
We can communicate with him day to day.

So we've opened our ears, adjusted our eyes,
and listened to Luke with our hearts,
It's amazing the things that boy has to say,
and he's been saying it from the start.

"Hey Mom and Dad, I'm right here beside you,
Nothing is much different than before,
If you see with new eyes and hear with new ears,
You want have to be so very sad anymore."

We know Luke's body is gone from us,
But his life is not over, it's changing,
His imperishable spirit is reaching out,
We just had to do a little rearranging.

Love goes on forever and ever,
Death can never take love away,
Our senses are tuned and aware of Luke,
Life continues through love that won't fade.

We know that Luke will be waiting for us,
When we cross to the other side.
Until then we've got lots of lessons to learn,
Mostly to know.....the spirit doesn't die.

That day at Crossing Over,
Though unaware,.....we heard from Luke,
His message, John, is what you always say,
To talk to him, we don't really need you.

What a gift for those that get a reading,
But they listen, and then it's all done,
But It's those that don't get a reading,
That sometimes turn out to be.....THE LUCKY ONES.

© 2002 - Christine Ross

"VISIT WITH LUKE"

Last Entry in Luke's Journal:
"When there is love in my heart and a smile on my face,
I need nothing else." ~ Luke Ross

"MAY THE FORCE BE WITH YOU"

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The Other Side