God touches our lives in remarkable ways...and never stops doing it. This is the experience of everyone who has a personal relationship with God, and it is my experience continually.
For instance, some days I wonder why I am doing what I am doing. Why have I taken an experience as personal as the spiritual encounter that I had and made it so public? Why have I spent the last 15 years traveling all over the world to be with people who have asked me to come and tell them about it? Why am I now working to help people to have the same experience themselves?
I was feeling some of these feelings on Tuesday, asking some of these questions, when I arose. Then, back to work it was. No time to lose, no time to ponder such meandering inquries...
I opened my personal website (www.nealedonaldwalsch.com) to the Messenger Circle, which I do every day, to read the Comments that members of the Circle place there for me, and to prepare to post my entry for the day. In the Comments section I found this...
Good morning Neale and one and all...In December I was involved in hospicing my aunt, and found it a trying but rewarding experience. My uncle and she were married for 67 years, and were the true example of unconditional love. Up until the very end they held hands, gazed into one anothers eyes and spoke the truth with love to one another. It was a very difficult time, and at the end of a week, she passed.
There were several events that occurred prior to her passing, such as her grandson speeding to get through traffic to be at her bedside was 'waved" through by traffic cops due to the traffic lights being out that morning. No one else...just him. He made it to her bedside one minute before she passed.
After her death my uncle (who is one of my very favorite charactors in this life) was understandably lost, and I made it my personal mission to talk to him for hours each week even though we live several thousand miles apart. I decided about two months ago to send him Conversations with God - Book 1, and then kept asking him, "Did you read it?". He always answered no...
He called me this weekend, elated, thrilled, excited. At 86 years old he read the book, and wanted to know when the next one was coming out. I laughed and told him that luckily for him Neale started writing these books in the 90's...so he had his choice of several wonderful books to select from. He shortened his call with me as he was off to the book store.
It is important to remember that some people are just getting the news, and it does not matter their age. The work that you are doing does not have a "shelf life" and lives are being changed every minute. God Bless....Patti
I am so very grateful to Patti -- who I do not know personally, but who is apparently a reader of CwG and a member of the Messenger Circle -- for sending me this note. It was generous of her to take the time, and very kind to think of me with these words. I also, and foremost, want to thank God. Thank you, God, for once again answering my prayers, responding to my doubts, assuring me in my waivering, speaking to me just as loudly as you possible can short of coming down here and standing right in front of me!
And to you, dear blog reader....whenever you have any doubts or questioning about anything in your life, I want you to know that you can count on God to be there. God will supply you with wisdom and clarity, comfort and assurance, through every means available. The lyrics of the next song you hear. The words on the billboard around the next highway you take. The chance utterance of a friend you "just happen" to meet on the street.
Count on it. You will have your conversation with God today. Yes, you will. Simply open yourself to it.
Then let me know what you heard. What is God's message to you today?
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Dear Neil: I am most profoundly thankful you took the time to write the CWG series and for your continued work opening up the hearts and minds of millions. In my personal experience I can only completely validate your work despite the many naysayers who are not quite awakened enough or hungry enough to accept that what you wrote is true. I will share several vignettes from my experience.
In 1993, after surviving hurricane Andrew with my then wife, I was confronted with the fact that she wanted to end the marriage. It was coming all along but at the time it felt like the end of the world. I had lost everything, then I was losing her as well. I went to Philadelphia to try and fix it. During the time I was in deep prayer and meditation constantly searching for the answer. I had been in a deep search for truth since having my eyes opened in the military, a search that I have yet to abandon. One night I excused myself from my wife and went to meditate. Before long I found myself in The Presence. I knew where I was, I was seeing it with eyes but my eyes were closed, I was experiencing what I can only describe as the most profound peace, security, stability and most importantly unconditional love. I was in a place where galaxies were being born. I felt nothing to fear and being quite a bit cocky considering where I was I began to ask questions: Was I damned for my mistakes? How would I fare on Judgment day? Questions most Christians would ask. I got a simple response. "NO JUDGMENT DAY! NO JUDGMENT!" Of course I was shocked. I enumerated the "sins" I knew should put me in hell. "NO JUDGMENT" was the response again. Then I asked about the most heinous criminal I could imagine, Adolf Hitler. Again! "NO JUDGMENT! ONLY LOVE!" A short time later I came out of the encounter and shared it with my ex. Of course we parted ways and it hurt.
I read "Conversations With God In 2001 after moving to Atlanta from Miami. I cried for the simple reason that here it was, all that I had acquired as knowing from that encounter. Two years later, after returning the book to its owner, I was hungry for the next books. I was so broke I couldn't afford them and they were out at the library. So I talked to God about it. Can you believe that no more than a week later I was walking back to my house from the library when I got this sudden urge to walk down a street I never took to get home. At the curb about halfway the block, were two boxes loaded with books being thrown away. Being a hopeless book lover I rummaged the box. I found, in that box, two brand new books by you. The next two in the series. I could not believe my luck! I opened the cover of one of them and I found a powder blue stick 'em stuck to the inner cover. On it were the words "I LOVE YOU!" Even now it brings tears to my eyes, but then I cried like a baby! The miracles did not end there. I dived into the book, I can't remember which now because those books left my hands as soon as I finished. I lent them, never to see them again. Anyway, while reading it, I came across a passage where you described the very same question about Adolf Hitler and the very same answer. The shcok of it turned me into a blubbering mess. It was just embarrassing! I can go on and on about the many miracles I have encountered. Things so amazing I fear to share them. Maybe someday I will write my story. It is a story of God's relentless, imperishable love for us. Thank you Neal. Thank you from the bottom of my heart!
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The other night i had a dream where i was in a building of some sort and i was living there. i believe my rommate was infact jesus, but i never looked him in the face. and i began to read the bible in my dream. in the bible i found many secret messages from god and began doing him favors and then i woke up. that morining i looked up some things on the internet and found this... To dream that God confers distinct favors upon you, you will become the favorite of a cautious and prominent person who will use his position to advance yours.
i believe this message relates to me.
God always has a message for you. It is in His Word. If you want to know what He has to say then turn a page in the bible. You must read it so it is in your heart. Later the Holy Spirit will use that which is within you at certain points in your life. You will know when it happens.
God doesnt want to just give you a message, He wants to sit down and talk with you. It's turely an amazing thing.
My message from God today is that we have been given this unique, physical body to be able to physically, tangibly, sacrificially, and sometimes even painfully, help and comfort His children and bring them closer to Him in His Earthly kingdom, and thus His heavenly one. In other words, we, when in heaven, cannot do for God what we are privileged to be able to do in this life for Him.
"Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with all your might, for in the grave, where you are going, ther is neither working nor planning nor knowledge nor wisdom."
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