Overwhelming fear? This phone call from God levels chaos

You fear what lies ahead.  Why?  I am here with you now, and I am with you always.  How do you know?  The sky, air, light, and creatures mirror my presence.

God wipes out fear
Phone call from God at Lake Athens, November 2019/©Steve Blaising

I formed all of these and surround you every day, calling out to you.  Yes, I can manage your cares.  Bring them to me.  Allow me to help you.  Name them and talk with me about each one.  Follow me no matter how hard your trials.  I love you, and I will lead you through all of them.  I will set your feet upon a rock.  Let me lift you out of the slimy pit.  I will put a new song in your heart. Trust me. Here’s how.

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Why Paper Girl’s World Is This Year’s Most Uplifting Book Discovery

This year’s Book of the Year, Paper Girl’s World, is lighting up happiness everywhere.

Paper Girl's World book

Crack open Judy Williamson’s 400-page masterpiece, and joy pours out like sunshine through a window you didn’t know was there. One page sends you off to a Mach 2 happy hour on the Concorde. Next, you’re face-to-face with the mist of Iguazu Falls. Then, romance drifts in at three miles an hour on a French canal barge, where even the clocks seem to take a break.

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How Grief Unlocks Hidden Doors to Peace and Growth

I never expected grief to open the door to such magical visitations after I buried my parents.

I’m not superstitious.  But, I believe the supernatural pokes into the everyday world in a wide variety of forms and places.

An unexpected visitor surprised me at my mother’s grave nine years ago.

Grief and magical places
Grief can land us in magical places/Steve Blaising/Parents’ gravestone, December 2016

But a very different visitor appeared to me days after my father died, the one whose image you see to the left on my parents’ gravestone.

I captured this moment on video.

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