CLICK BELOW TO LISTEN WITH AUDIO The day before Storm Sandy, the second most devastating natural disaster in US history after Hurricane Katrina, I was busy securing all outdoor furniture, loose fixtures, and anything else that could potentially fly and cause damage by hurricane force. The storm was not just a meteorological event but a …
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A Curious Encounter
(By: Cheryl Newland) I had a God-incidence that left quite an impression on me. I was making dinner for my husband. At the time we lived in a second-floor apartment of a nice older home with a large front porch. It was a lovely summer evening, and I decided to sit on the porch awhile …
Stage Fright
CLICK BELOW TO LISTEN WITH AUDIO As I peered out from behind the stage curtain, I saw that the War Memorial Performance Hall in Trenton, New Jersey, with its nearly two-thousand-seat capacity, was completely filled. On stage, numerous keynote speakers were already seated, waiting for the event to begin. I had been asked to speak …
Be still and know that I am God
If you are observant, you would probably find that when there were significant life changing events in your life, God-incidences may likely have accompanied them. It was God’s perfect timing and means of communicating with you, and of reassuring you that everything would be okay; perhaps in just a whisper, a subtle wink from God that …
Camp Happyland
During college, I had been appointed a music therapist internship at St. Elizabeth Hospital in Washington DC, a government run psychiatric hospital for treating the mentally deficient, the mentally disturbed, the deaf and blind, and those addicted to drugs and alcohol. During my stay, the hospital moved the patients to a vacation camp in Prince …
An Angel on the Highway
I am always lifted up and encouraged when God speaks to my innermost spirit through some event. Some would say that it is just coincidence, an accident that was merely by chance, fate, or luck that we are in the right place at the right time. But I beg to differ. Most Christians, I believe, …