James Brian Hatcher giving us a sign

"I said a prayer for you today, I know God must have heard. I felt the answer in my heart, although he spoke no word."

Brian's sister, Suzanne, prepared the prayer cloth to be wrapped around her only brother's ashes before he was laid to rest at Shady Oaks in the family cemetery today.

Suzanne went out there over the very hot weekend, mowed and weed-eated a large area around the cemetery in preparation for Memorial Day just in case someone wanted to come visit the graves of James E. Hatcher and his son James Brian Hatcher on or around Memorial Day.

Brian's sister, Sharon, had a stone made and placed it on Brian's grave  with the names of those who dearly loved and will forever miss Brian.
She placed the stone on his grave.

Some of Brian's ashes were laid to rest on top of a bed of red roses provided by Suzanne.

The beautiful Peonies that Brian and Reva had planted were beginning to bloom and have many buds ready to pop open yet,  and Brian was placed right next to one of them. 

 It was just Suzanne, Sharon and myself who went out there and we sat under the shade of a redbud tree, (it was so hot 90 degrees), and we

played some of Brian's favorite music, Free Bird by Lynyrd Skynyrd was one of them.  After Sharon had played a selection,  then some how mysteriously, Spirit in the Sky  by Norman Greenbaum just started playing on its very own from my cell phone.  It was a little eerie at first, but then we saw it as a sign from Brian.  This is something that none of us will be forgetting anytime soon.  For just  half a second or so I thought Brian was calling me on my cellphone, but then I realized that this couldn't be possible.

Spirit in the Sky was the ringtone that Brian had chosen to put on my cell phone so that I would recognize that it was he who was calling me.  Brian loved that song, and today, sitting by his grave,  I definitely knew that it was Brian who was reaching out to us to let us know he was still watching out over all of his family, and that he is fine.

Here are some more pictures of our day and also some taken previously of Shady Oaks where some of Brian's ashes have been laid to rest: