Space rubbish and wairua of the spirit

Recently a visitor came to see me, her 3-year-old mokopuna had come to her house crying that her other Nanny was in a coal wagon in the sky. 

She told me the following story. When her Nanny died, she was told to look into the sky and she would  feel her spirit looking over her.   She would look up every night and have a chat to her Nanny in the stars. 

One day her 12-year-old cousin arrived to stay — before she went to bed, she went to have a chat to her Nanny in the stars. Her cousin told her that that was stupid: “Your nanny is in the ground, she’s dead.” 

So when this mother talked to her nephew, she was corrected by her nephew who responded with: “There are no stars in the sky — they are all coal wagons.” 

It appears now  the rockets and payloads sent into space are filling the skies. The mother has asked me what does she do with the old stories she has had mai ra ano. She    looked into the sky and saw satellite trains and  rubbish floating around the universe. 

My answer is that you should keep faith and the wairua of the spirit should still carry on in the universe. 

Pauline E. Tangiora