The Northern Cardinal — Messenger from Beyond

I used to have a coworker who loved cardinals. She was an older woman who often wore a sweatshirt with the image of a cardinal sewn on the front, and every Christmas she sent out cards decorated with — you guessed it — cardinals. One day I finally asked her what her affinity for this particular bird was all about, and she told me she believed cardinals were messengers from heaven. Specifically, they were the spirits of deceased loved ones coming back to visit her. I thought it was sweet. Weird, but sweet. So, the next time the kids and I were playing in the yard and I saw a cardinal, I told them about my coworker’s theory. They immediately latched onto the idea, and from then on, whenever we spotted a cardinal we would debate who was visiting us. Was it my grandfather, who had passed away before they were born? Was it someone on their mother’s side of the family? <a href="https://medium.com/the-new-outdoors/the-northern-cardinal-messenger-from-beyond-64d1e75fc00a">Click Here</a>