In a situation defying explanation, a grieving widow and daughter received the most unexpected encouragement and peace on Father’s Day.
Johnny Seibold was only 43 when he died from pancreatic cancer in May, leaving behind wife Sandy and 13-year-old daughter Saige.
“He was an amazing man,” Sandy Seibold told the New York Daily News. “He was a hard worker, and he loved us. He did everything he could to get us everything that we wanted. We had a really good life, and that was hard to lose.”
On Father’s Day, Sandy took her daughter to her father’s grave. Saige wrote a letter to her dad and attached it to a balloon that read “#1 Dad.” The letter asked whoever found the letter to contact them.
“We thought the idea of sending balloons to heaven sounded good,” Sandy said.
The mother and daughter then left the cemetery to run errands and returned home 25 miles away from the gravesite.
To find the balloon and the letter hanging on a fence 100 feet from the house…where Saige and her father would often spend time working together.
“What are the chances?” Sandy said. “I think I started crying. It felt like a message from him.”
The two women say that they now have a lot of peace about losing Johnny.
