At this time my Nana was 96 years old. She was still in quite good spirit and health. (2008)
The process. The prayer / the Dream / Nana's excitement / the phone call.
The prayer:
One day in 2008 I was walking through my unit toward the kitchen, when I felt this strong sense to pray for my Nana. It was quite an arrest of my spirit, so I sat on the couch and I said to the Lord, 'what do you want me to pray for' and the response I felt was, 'I want you to pray for her death'.
This was a bit strange, but I felt it was from the Lord. Plus, she was 96 years old and her time would come one day. So I sat and prayed for about 5 minutes. The things I prayed for were along the line of: Lord take her peacefully / quietly and without pain and that she would get to do everything that she needed to do before she left this earth and went on to her Heavenly Father. I also prayed for her heart, for Jesus to deal with any issues that need to be dealt with.
The dream:
A week or so later I had a dream. I was in a church and there were pew type seats and some people I knew from church, and then there was this young girl in a beautiful white dress standing in front of me - holding the sides of her dress open with a playful swing in her stance. I said to her 'Nana, you are here, you are here'. In saying 'you are here', I knew it was heaven, and this young girl whom I somehow knew was my Nana, was in white, and she was youthful. And I was joyed that she was in heaven. As she was Catholic, the pews in the dream made sense.