I have seen too much in my life to NOT believe in the afterlife - the next phase - the higher plane - our real home. I know we'll all meet again in a better place, and we'll get this figured out eventually.

You have such wonderful memories of your mother, and she had a great faith that she passed on to you. May it give you solace, knowing that you'll be seeing her and the rest of your family when it's your time. Many of us do not ascribe to a particular set of religious rules (I was raised a Catholic) however the belief in the hereafter is almost a universal human need.

I've found comfort reading the books of Sylvia Browne and Ruth Montgomery over the years.