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[posted by Bonnie Byrnes]

This took me a while to post…. but in the beginning of January 2020 my grandfather had passed away. I was extremely close with him growing up and he became very sick around early 2015. I remember the last time I saw Luke he was singing at St joes for Easter Sunday – during all that. So I’m gonna say March/April 2015. Actually I remember a woman tripped and fell after mass and he offered his Gatorade which I thought was ridiculous because she fell- she wasn’t passing out or dehydrated – anyway I digress. I knew when we went to the burial for my grandfather he was near Luke’s grave but not in total eyesight or completely nearby – just by the school like Luke was. There were some chairs right in front of the casket for the burial so I sat next to my mother and my grandmother- only the three of us right in front. The priest gave a blessing over the casket and right as he gave the blessing I heard wind chimes and turned to my mom and smiled because she could hear them too. The wind chimes kept going over the blessing and stopped after so I wanted to know where they were coming from while I was sitting there, and naturally started looking around for the source. Diagonally (really from only where I was sitting/my point of view) I see Luke’s tombstone with the wind chimes. It still gives me chills because I know he was saying hi. My mom and I went and said hey immediately after the burial- I actually yelled at him because I was pretty much detached as a coping mechanism for my grandfather’s whole wake/funeral and that moment made me extremely emotional. As if he couldn’t let me get through the weekend without losing it – I was almost there! It is a moment that I will never forget.