Messages From Heaven- Birthdays

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In this episode, we explore touching stories of people who have received signs from loved ones on significant days, particularly birthdays. These stories reveal the enduring connections that persist beyond life, suggesting that our bonds with those we cherish continue to thrive. 

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:29):
Hello everyone and welcome back to CC Airwaves.
My name is Paige Matillo andI'm here with my co-host, joel
Hansel.

Speaker 2 (00:37):
Good morning Paige.

Speaker 1 (00:39):
How are you doing today?

Speaker 2 (00:40):
I'm fine yourself.

Speaker 1 (00:42):
I'm doing really good .
So it's the 2nd of July aswe're filming this and my
birthday is in July, so I'm veryexcited to celebrate that with
my friends and family.

Speaker 2 (00:52):
Well, you're still young and celebrate birthdays.
For some of us, when thebirthday comes around, it's the
anniversary of when we turn 21.

Speaker 1 (01:04):
Well, I think I'm going to try and celebrate
birthdays forever.

Speaker 2 (01:07):
I think they're an important milestone.

Speaker 1 (01:09):
I like them.

Speaker 2 (01:10):
That's fine, you'll change your tune.

Speaker 1 (01:12):
In a few years I'll come back in 25 years and let
everyone know if I'm stillcelebrating birthdays.

Speaker 2 (01:17):
It's the 25th anniversary of my 21st birthday.

Speaker 1 (01:22):
Well, that was my clever segue into the topic for
today, which is birthdays.
We're going to be sharingmessages from heaven from
individuals who receivedbirthday messages from their
loved ones on their special day.
So I will start us off with ourfirst story, which was

(01:42):
submitted by Stella Kohler.
My son, Jared's 25th birthdaywas on June 12, 2024, although
he only lived 19 months.
My sister and brother-in-lawvisited that day and asked if
they could get a happy birthdayballoon and bring it to the
cemetery.
I told her that was notnecessary, but that she should
visit the cemetery Later thatday.

(02:04):
We met them at a local park toplay disc golf, while my husband
did some bird watching andphotography.
As we were following the callof a red bellied woodpecker, we
were led to a balloon in thewoods that read happy birthday.
Jared got his balloon after all.
Thanks for letting me sharethis message from heaven.

Speaker 2 (02:25):
Did the sister and brother-in-law visit the
cemetery?

Speaker 1 (02:28):
They probably did.
Okay, I believe they did, butthis balloon was in the woods at
the park away from the cemetery.

Speaker 2 (02:37):
Okay, all right, I get it.

Speaker 1 (02:42):
I like the story.
I even got the picture that sheattached and it was very sweet.
It was a good birthday messagefor Jared.

Speaker 2 (02:50):
For a minute there.
I thought that might have beenthe balloon from the cemetery.

Speaker 1 (02:53):
Oh, and it flew from there.
Oh, that would have been crazy.

Speaker 2 (02:58):
I think that's the piece that I kind of missed here
.

Speaker 1 (03:01):
You know, I believe that you know they visited the
cemetery but didn't bring aballoon but then they found it
in the woods when they werelooking at the bird, which,
honestly, as we've talked aboutbefore, birds tend to be the
messengers from heaven, so itkind of seems like it was
leading them there.

Speaker 2 (03:18):
Yeah, Especially if it was well, they were following
a woodpecker, not a Cardinal.

Speaker 1 (03:23):
That is true.
Cardinals are typically themessengers from heaven.
That really would have beenlike whoa, but what a beautiful
story, and thank you so much,stella, for sharing it with us.

Speaker 2 (03:37):
Story number two was submitted by Grace no last name.
It has been three years since Ilost my brother, elliot, and
his 21st birthday was hitting mehard.
As I started my drive to work,I connected my iPhone to my
car's Bluetooth and hit shuffle,unsure of what I wanted to hear

(03:57):
.
The first song they played washere Comes the Sun.
Elliot had tried to learnguitar when he was seven and,
though he struggled, he managedto master the chords of that
song's chorus.
He was incredibly proud, eventhough that was the only song he
ever learned to play.
Still, he would occasionallystrum those chords, always

(04:19):
ending in laughter and callinghimself a natural.
Now, as I drove and rememberedhim laughing and playing, I
found myself laughing too,something I desperately needed
on his birthday.
But seriously, what are thechances that out of 2,000 songs,
that is the one that plays?

Speaker 1 (04:38):
And that's a good point.
I'm not really good at math soI can't tell you what a one out
of 2000 chances, but it is verycrazy that that is the one song
that played that was so similarto.
That was the song that was veryimportant to her brother.

Speaker 2 (04:59):
Yeah, they say things , you know things happen for a
reason.
Yeah, they say things, you knowthings happen for a reason.
And obviously the algorithm itpopped out that song and it just
somehow factored in Elliot andhis birthday and the fact that
he tried to learn that song.

Speaker 1 (05:16):
Something similar happened to me, though, when I
graduated high school.
So in eighth grade we had agraduation song, and I can't for
the life of me remember it.
But when I was leaving to goget my hair done at my cousin's
house for my high schoolgraduation, I hit shuffle on my
car and the graduation songpopped up, like it was the first

(05:36):
song I heard of the day I thinka lot of us have that kind of
circumstance happen to us.

Speaker 2 (05:44):
Whether you want to call it a coincidence or what
doesn't matter, it's happened toall of us, this definitely a
message from Elliot.

Speaker 1 (05:54):
Yeah, I took mine as a message from God and I'm
taking this one as a messageElliot, Elliot messed up with
the algorithms.
This next story was submitted byJoey E.
My dad was a car enthusiast.
He loved fixing them up and Ioften helped him.
Sadly, he passed away from aheart attack earlier this year,

(06:15):
leaving both an unfinished carand a deep void in my life.
We planned to sell the car, butstrangely we couldn't find the
keys anywhere.
My stepmom and I searched theentire house to no avail.
Eventually, we took it as asign that it wasn't the right
time to sell.
On my birthday, which I wasn'treally in the mood to celebrate,
I decided to clean out hisgarage instead.

(06:36):
Dad had a little workstationwhere he spent countless hours
as I was moving things around.
I picked up a photo of him andme.
To my surprise, it feltunusually heavy, curious.
I checked the back and foundthe keys taped there.
I had no idea why he would hidethem in such a place, but in
that moment it felt like a signfrom him, a sign that I should

(06:57):
keep the car.
It felt like he was guiding meeven now and, who knows, maybe I
can pass the car down to my sonwhen the time comes.
What a birthday gift.

Speaker 2 (07:07):
Well, obviously Dad really cherished the times that
Joey worked with him on thosecars.
It meant a lot to him and toDad.
It just made sense to put thekey next to a photo of the two
of them or on the back of thephoto and, yeah, dad led Joey to

(07:30):
that photo and the keys.
Sort of like other storieswhere people cleaning out found
stuff.

Speaker 1 (07:40):
Yeah, found something at the right, exact moment.

Speaker 2 (07:43):
It was right, when he needed it, at the perfect
moment.

Speaker 1 (07:47):
And I.
Actually there was a photoalong with this story and it was
a picture in the picture frame.
It was him and his dad whenthey were younger and it was
them in front of a car and then,you know, on the back the keys
are taped.
So obviously I cried a little,but I'm emotional, I can't help
it.

Speaker 2 (08:07):
This story was submitted by Will.
Every birthday, our familygathered to celebrate, but ever
since mom passed away, thosegatherings had a tinge of
sadness.
Mom always cracked the samesilly joke each year, asking
what do you always get on yourbirthday?
The punchline, another yearolder.

(08:29):
This year, as we cut the cake,our youngest nephew, who had
never met mom, blurted out whatdo you always get on your
birthday Another year older?
The room fell silent for amoment before erupting into
heartfelt laughter.
It felt as though mom was rightthere, chuckling along with us.

(08:51):
Her spirit was alive and wellin that laughter, reminding us
all that she was still very mucha part of our celebrations.

Speaker 1 (09:00):
That's awesome.
That's an awesome joke, thoughhonestly, I mean that that's
great.
I'm going to use that this year.

Speaker 2 (09:06):
I want to know how old the nephew was.

Speaker 1 (09:08):
I don't know.
That's a great question.

Speaker 2 (09:10):
I could just picture like a seven-year-old.

Speaker 1 (09:12):
I was just about to say, seven years old, has a joke
book or something from thedollar store and just is looking
through it, picks a joke.
But you know, as we say, youget led to things sometimes.
So maybe that was mom's way ofsaying I'm here still, I'm still
celebrating, and guess what?
You can't get away from thiscorny, cheesy joke.
That's a good joke, though.

(09:35):
I like it.
Well, that's all that we havetoday.
Thank you so much for listeningand, as you all know and I've
heard in the past, if you havereceived a message from heaven
and would like to share it,email us at podcast at
C-L-E-C-E-Morg, or send us amessage on our social media and
stay tuned, because we will behaving a 100th episode

(10:00):
celebration in the near future.
I believe it's about twoepisodes away, so stay tuned for
that.

Speaker 2 (10:08):
Until the next time, everyone take care.