Elvis - A Lighted Candle

[juliepresleyfan]

hi there wanda, do you ever get messages from Elvis that have to do with yourself or others, or maybe you ever feel him around nowadays.
in a taxi on the way home a few days ago me and my mum were just sitting there when the icecream truck started playing the jingle its now or never but only a few seconds,it seemed once i had focused and got what it was it went just stopped, i do get that often , but usually its music on the radio or a stereo system in a shop,neve on a jingle before.
it made me think about him and i remembered he liked icecream didnt he.
it made me laugh which i need lately, i got myself some morning glorys recently and im having a go at growing them as i saw that elvis loved them , maybe he can see the plants i planted for him.
a pretty rose that comes out black but goes dark pink, i wonder if he would think me daft, i just wanted to do it, it did not bloom last year hope it does this year.
i call the rose precious as he is to me, anyway hope the morning glorys grow nice for him.

[ALNA]

When I went to Graceland, I loved the early morning. One day I stood at his grave before visiting hours and really I was COMPLETELY alone with him. There was a soft breeze carresing my hear and the threes waved and a lot of birds I could hear and I just felt so happy that he is burried there. I think he was sitting there a lot in the meditation garden, just like I did that morning. It is so peacefully and beautiful and so near to every place he loved so much. The pool, the barn, the house.

When I was sitting there I said to him, Elvis I hope you finally have peace and rest. You did so great and we will always remember you. You were such a good entertainer and such a beautiful human being. Too bad it all ended so soon but you were loved so much not only by us but also by your good friends and Lisa and also your family. You had such an extraordinary live, most people can only dream of. Never again will the world witness someone like you.

I still remeber exact every word I said until today. At that moment and even today I was crying. Sometimes I wish I could go live and work at Graceland. Boy I would love to take care of his grave every day and stay for a while and have my talk with him.

[Wanda June Hill]

Hi, missed the question I guess, sometimes (almost always at trying times) I walk into the grocery store and Elvis will pop us singing and if I'm there long enough there will be two songs by him. And it is really funny when I go into places that play canned elevator music and boom there will be an Elvis song and he's singing it
not just music! That happened in Norton Nutrition store just the other day. The lady waiting on me said, Did somebody change the station? No one did-it just came on and then went back to elevator music. It was I'll Remember You from Aloha special- totally out of the blue
the lady said and then she wished they'd do that more often and keep everyone awake! I hear Return To Sender quite often if I go into the drug store and Way down comes on in the grocery store- it's pretty funny at times-and surprising how many people notice it's Elvis.
Just the other day at the Health Food Store where I go to buy veggies and organic eggs they played 3 of his songs while I was there- people commented about him the first time one came on-It was Way Down-one lady about my age told the guy putting things out that she and her husband saw him do that one on stage in Vegas and then again in San Antionio when they went RVing and he was to be there. They managed to get tickets through their travel agent-and sat in the 5th row. He was fantastic and both of them couldn't get over how handsome he was-he just gave off a special light from inside, she said. The guy putting up stuff lamented that he never got to see him live and the one chance he had he gave up to go to a sports event. He wished he hadn't but no body ever thought Elvis would leave us-he was so young-when he turned 42 he said, it hit him just how young 42 was and Elvis died so young. So yes, he's around-funny things happen periodicaly and usually out of the blue. I was driving home on our rural roads and a lady was trying to herd her chickens back across the road into her yard. I pulled over and together we did it. The rooster was the last one to go and he let me catch him. She said, Well, Elvis! You never let me catch you-
what is this?" I said "Elvis" huh? Good name, he's pretty fancy dressed! He was a beauifully feathered bird,
golden mantel, blue and green wings and a few birght red feathers in his wing tips. He was very lovey dovey to me and didn't use his spurs at all. But I have a way with chickens-have had several rooster pets and my kitchen is done in chickens with our roosters pictures up as a border so...whatever it is they usually like me. wjh

[Blue Moon]

The lady waiting on me said, Did somebody change the station? No one did-it just came on and then went back to elevator music. It was I'll Remember You from Aloha special- totally out of the blue

Maybe Elvis was trying to speak to you in a way, telling you that he will remember you. How special.

[ALNA]

I wonder, having been in the Meditation Garden, and feeling that peace I know he loved sitting there at night or in the early morning hours, did he ever told anyone where he would be burried. Perhaps Wanda June can tell us that.

Why did the family choose first the mausoleum. And Elvis being so quickly burried, how comes that the mausoleum was choosen, was it a choose he alreaddy made himself.

I don't know but being burried so quick is that normal procedure in the South. And having all those funeral arrangements in such a short notice, it's almost like everything was alreaddy choosen by him before he died, or am I wrong?


Nadine

[Rainbow Light]

There must, indeed, be SOMETHING going on when Elvis music is being 'suddenly' heard in various places, especially by many of us on the Forum, and it's great that many other people around us are getting to hear Elvis too at the same time of course!

But there just seems to be more just lately from various postings I've happened to read, maybe it has always been like that anyway but wonder if it could be as it gets nearer 2007, when he's been away from us 30 years and also many of us on the Forum are interested in and 'tuned' into Elvis' spiritual side so he's just wanting to say 'hi' - through our love and remembering Elvis, he's so very much still with us?

I can understand what Nadine said too about the Meditation Garden being such a beautiful and peaceful place and the photos she posted were really nice, made me feel like I was back there already! With all of the floral tributes there and the messages, many teddy bears and gifts, it's just so touching to know how so many thousands, worldwide love this beautiful man of ours!

Wanda, could you check out Nadine's questions in the post above? Many thanks!

[juliepresleyfan]

hi riley well i loved your message about the meditation garden, ive never had the chance myself to go, maybe i will oneday i really hope so.
if i get to go to see his grave at graceland i will say hi elvis i made it then.
i like the way you describe the meditation garden riley, it makes me want to go all the more now lol.
nice to hear youve been i guess i will hopefully have my chance someday, if its fate that im not meant to go then so be it, but i do really want to badley.
and wanda i sounds like the elvis songs you hear are specifically for you and your family, incidently part of your daughters name is similar to mine , im a Julie Ann .lol.

i must admit it was pretty odd the ice cream van started playing the tune , Its now or never, could it have been a message, but it stopped abruptly as it started after only 2 or 3 minutes.
i cant imagine that while driving the man would put jingle on only 3 minutes then turn off.
normally jingle goes as they stop to let you know he is there lol.
what you think sue or riley or both ?.

your messages have made me aware that i should perhaps pay more attention to the song dont you think.
ive enjoyed reading these messages, yes sue it does happen more and more lately.
i want to make elvis one of my knitted hearts and take it to him, ive heard other people put things there so iguess it wouldbe ok.
hope everyones well julie

[ALNA]

Juliepresley,

If you ever have the chance to go to Graceland, do it. BUt mind you it is also a very painful experience.

You will see so many prooves of a man who had so much still to live for.
All his costumes, his jewels, his guns seem so meaningless whitout him wearing it. Some costums just don't have that magic I expected them to have but then I realised it was ELVIS who made them look so special. It was the man in the costum that shined so bright and he was gone.

When you look at the faces of the fans passing by the graves I couldn't help crying. There is so much grief still there for that huge loss. I sat by and watched it very silently. People bowing their heads and kneel and pray and I suddenly realised he was something MORE , he was special, he was sent to us by God and there was a little tought in my head which said he was another son of God. That makes sense but aren't we all Gods children.





I am glad I have been at Graceland, but I mostly remember the sadness I felt sitting at his grave in the morning hours. Nature was beautiful and I saw the pool and I tought, Elvis, you should have been here enjoying your life, having fun, watching your daughter and her grandchildren instead of being here under that damm stone under so many layers of concrete. I cried and you know I don't want to think that much about it anymore it makes me even crie when I type it here. I enjoyed the house but all I could think about was him not being here to enjoye it anymore, or him laying on that bathroom floor. You know when you enter the hallway it is JUST above your head that he felt and died. I felt his presence but I know I have a ability to sense things but also that one I never share with others. People simply do not understand that and laugh with it.

It was strange at his grave I didn't feel his presence but with a breeze and the trees waving and smelling that fresh morning air I did feel peace and rest.

I think Elvis often sat in the meditation garden , he loved it there and I wonder did he ever ask someone to be burried there.

[Wanda June Hill]

Hi, Elvis talked about death and what he wanted to wear-white suit and blue shirt and he didn't want to be put under ground in the dark-he joked about wanting a night light in his coffin. And I said, oh, in case you want to read? And he laughed. But they put an eternal flame over his head so he's not in the dark! It used to bother me when he talked like that but I got used to it because he was so open and free with his thoughts of such things at times. Other times if he spoke of his mother-he cried easily. He wasn't down in the dumps about dying though...in fact looked forward to being with Jesus and seeing his old friends and his mother. He always went to the Bible to make things right-and boy he was good at that.
As for putting him in the garden-I think they had to have time to get permits to put him at Graceland and too, they didn't know how soon someone would try to steal him from there-there were guards around the clock and some of them said they heard him singing coming from inside and were kind of spooked by it! I can imagine.
Anyway, he would want to be at Graceland, I think. I'm glad they are all together there and as Lisa says, there is a space for her too. That would have been tough for a kid-even now I would think. But he wanted her to live there, to raise her kids there and make it a home. I feel kind of bad that it isn't but he also would like his fans having a place to tour and see his things-he bought them for them to see-he made the costumes for his fans and he liked showing off what they had "given him" to them. He said it is all theirs and they made it all mine.
I owe them everything I have and by damn, I'm gonna try to repay it with everything I can. And he did that.
He "lay down his life for his friends" just as the Bible says, "No man hath greater love than this, that he lay down his life for his friends." That was one of the things Elvis lived by also, he quoted it often and he practiced it.
He wasn't perfect, no way, he had his faults, his temper and stuborness and no body could tell him what to do-that was a positive not in his personal life, but he had to do things in his professional life and had no control, so of course he controled what he could in his personal life to make up for that...in a way. But he was kind and generous and obliging to a fault in other ways too. And used because of his tendencey to trust and be innocent in how he thought of people, trusting too much too easily...and paying the price for it. He was happy, most of his life he was really enjoying things and happy-hard to think about connected to all the other that went down around him, but Elvis laughed, had fun and enjoyed living to the hilt most of the time-he wasn't glum and crying all the time-far more often he was laughing and joking and acting the fool he loved to be to make others laugh. I think he enjoyed being here-and I think now he knows that he did have a purpose and that he did fulfill quite a bit of it and that millions have been touched by his efforts and still love him and remember him and I think as long as that is happening he is going to be doing just what he is-- trying to touch as many as he can with music, caring and just being there for all his friends-the whole world was "his friends" so he's got a tall order! I heard the other day in Africa there was a group of kids and this was where that awful war and killings are going on- the kids were singing in ENGLISH an Elvis song- You ain't nothing but a hound dawg- and laughing and clapping their hands. Now that would make him smile and his eyes dance. wjh

[Blue Moon]

But he wanted her to live there, to raise her kids there and make it a home. I feel kind of bad that it isn't

Not sure if this is true or not but had read somewhere that in the early 1980's Graceland was nearing bankruptcy. If true, then having the tours made a way for Lisa to be able to keep Graceland. It would have been awful if it had been sold to a stranger. Then neither Lisa nor the fans would have Graceland. So it appears opening Graceland to the public worked out for everyone. Lisa got to keep the house, and as you say

he also would like his fans having a place to tour and see his things. . . He said it is all theirs and they made it all mine.

[Barbara Lea]

I sit here hearing Elvis sing Gospel, with Tears running down my face after reading what you said Wanda. I belong to the Insiders Club on Elvis .com, and I sometimes I look through the Camera they have in Elvis's bedroom window. Sometimes when I do I well start to CRY because it just looks so LONELY and Still! then there are times I look through the Camera and I smile and chuckle, because I can picture Elvis in one of his golf carts or another of his Motor Toys going like a Bat out of H--! . I have yet to go to Graceland Physically, I have been there in my Dreams. I have pictured looking at Graceland as I come up Elvis Presley BLVD. I know once I really look upon that house the Tears well start to Flow and they well never stop until the day I leave, I hope when I go to that Garden and enter that house I'm able to be alone. So I can have time to feel, to cry, and to tell Elvis what I have always wanted to sayto him if I was ever blessed in seeing him in person. I know wihtout a doubt that Elvis is at Peace, and nothing can never HARM him again. But I Miss Him So Very Much, and I hope when I do go to Graceland and to his Grave he knows I'm there. Barb!

[Wanda June Hill]

Yes it is true that Graceland was on the verge of having to take bankruptcy but Priscilla and Tod whatever his name is that has been with Graceland for ever it seemed, and the lawyers got together and worked out a deal to open it up to the public because there was so many people wanting to come in and see inside. so that was done and the rest is history. I hate to see it opened upstairs also-it doesn't seem necessary and it is a very old house. I worry everytime there are tornardos around there-this year they weren't that far-can you just picture all his things blown all over the countryside!
He would probably laugh but it would be a disaster in my view! And that of alot of the world. However, he would say, well now, nothing is forever, ya know. Sorry buddy,
YOU are forever as long as we have your music and any part you left behind! Still, mothernature can be a mean one at times... I still remember how frail the door facings were in 1993 I think it was when we were there and went inside with a group. Can't recall exactly now-but the facings were practically decayed and just paint holding them together! I hope they fixed that. And inside the door the floor was kind of creaky as well! I thought then, boy this won't last-not with the nunber of people going to come through here... And have and will.
It was great to see the house in person, but I have to say the beautiful color pictures of the inside and outside are just as beautiful and more lasting that being there. I just want to see the displays of things we didn't see before-to see if we recognize anything and just to be close to his things...crazy but I would like to just be close to something dear to him one more time.
We have a shirt he wore-in fact two of them-one he gave my husband -a beautiful yellow silk with a gold crown on the pocket and the full sleeves, another just a plain white shirt that I took with me when I left his house- it was thrown on a chair and I put my jacket over it and took it-I never did tell him-he would have loved it and never let me hear the end of it! I wish I had- I knew he wouldn't care and it had been worn and was pretty tight on him-he had to roll up the sleeves they were short and only buttoned two or three buttons on the shirt- it fit snuggly! And he had removed it because it was tight across the shoulders and they were going to go play football in the park. He put on a pull over jersey with the number 11, his number on the front. Anyway, I haven't seen his shirts in probably 14 years or more-not since we moved to this area. Starla has them boxed up and in the fire safe shed now-so maybe some day we can look for them. I think every one ought to have a chance to see Graceland-even if through pictures and there are some beautiful books that show so much. The thing that got me the most is that it's not a huge mansion, it is a home and it radiated that so well. And the things inside are very nice but not that expensive-the dining room had about the most expensive things in it it seemed to me and of course the piano and organ but the bigger organ was upstairs -the one he played songs on for us and taped them because I asked. I miss those things-just him being him and that snickering laugh. oh well, some day... I hope he can still laugh that way. wjh

[Rainbow Light]

Hey all!

Thanks for your reassuring and comforting words as always, Wanda. It sure can be painful to be at Graceland and the Meditation Garden in many ways - do hope Julie and Barb will be able to have the opportunity to go there someday though to be able to see everything.

Know and believe Elvis is with the Lord and that he's happy and at peace. His presence can still be felt many a place and time but still, sure we still love and miss this wonderful man so much!

But then, in so many ways he is forever with everything he has left us, so much of him - Elvis is everywhere!, still so much and while he's not forgotten (how could he ever be?!!!), he'll always be there!!