RE: The Number 13

My only child recently passed away, she was my best friend and loved by all. At only 22, exactly 1 month before her 23 birthday, she got into an accident on Easter Sunday, she lived for 4 days and died on April 9. I was told that she should not have survived at the scene of the accident, as no one sustains this type of injury (her carotid artery was severed) I was told she should not have made it through surgery (less than 1% survive this type of surgery)but she did. The first time I got to see her, as I walked towards her ICU room, I glanced up and noticed the room number was 13. For a brief moment I thought, unlucky 13. After her funeral, my husband and I were overwhelmed and could not escape the number 13 as it appeared everywhere, so much that we began to think that maybe she was trying to tell us something. Beginning with her room number, 13, she was buried on April 13, there were exactly 313 entries in the guest book, a total of 3,313 dollars were donated, after placing a down payment on the plot next to hers, our balance was 1300, her funeral expense did not include the picture I wanted to place on her headstone, this was an extra 313 dollars. The first trip we made to the grocery store (since her accident)not finding 2 items on my list which were ALWAYS there before, I ended up with 13 items in my basket, the total for everything was 113. A trip to get ice cream for my niece, who I did not allow to attend funeral (too young and very close to my daughter) the cost was 13 and change. I had to move her things out of her apartment and counted the stairs, there were 13. Finally, the hospital bill came in and it was $113,000.00!!!! My husband began to research the significance of the number and we learned that 13 was not an unlucky number, but in fact a holy number and a sign from God that he has your loved one and they are with him. It made total since, she could not have sent these signs to us as she was still alive when she entered the number 13 room. God gave us time with her, to be with her in her last moments. It was a pure miracle that she made it to the hospital, as they thought she was gone and were about to "call It" as they explained it, when she came back again and again. God gave her the strength to hold on for me and he gave me the strength to go on without her, only by sending me the number 13 signs.