Religious-Spiritual
Mysterious Ways
Helping Hands
I sat on the bed with a handful of my mother’s drugs. Little white pills cupped in my 12-year-old hand.
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February/March 2020
Mysterious Ways
News From Around Our Wonderful World
West Deptford Township, New Jersey Some of Austin Schwarz’s favorite childhood memories were spent on his dad’s fishing boat.
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February/March 2020
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The Best Travel Agent
The lake caught my eye in a glint of January sunlight.
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February/March 2020
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Weight of the World
I stood near the railing of the ferry as it skimmed over Lake Erie toward the small island of Put-in-Bay.
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February/March 2020
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The Toothache
The pain was sharp and sudden.
4 min |
February/March 2020
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Heavenly Scent
It was a Saturday afternoon.
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February/March 2020
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Gigi
I drove slowly back from the store, content to go below the speed limit.
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February/March 2020
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Garage Sale Treasure
“Please help, Mom,” I whispered.
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February/March 2020
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A voice in the storm
Your house is going to be struck by lightning today.
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October - November 2019
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On The Road
I stuck my thumb out into the biting wind. I was somewhere in Utah, trying to hitch a ride as the daylight faded. It was bitterly cold and beginning to snow. I had on a coat and the combat boots I’d worn in Vietnam. But not much else to protect me from the late spring snowstorm.
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October - November 2019
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Found Mystic: Thomas Traherne
London, 1896. A dusty old bookstall overflows with piles of tomes and manuscripts.
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October - November 2019
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Lost Trail Road
The truck bumped and jolted as we drove up the steep gravel road through a dense green forest.
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October - November 2019
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Flowers For Anna Jean
It was my day off, and I was on my way to visit Mom. It had been a while, and I was looking forward to seeing her. Driving the familiar highway, I passed a turnoff and thought, That’s the road to Anna Jean’s.
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October - November 2019
Mysterious Ways
Q&A Dr. Charity Virkler Kayembe
A DREAM EXPERT AND AUTHOR ANSWERS OUR MOST PRESSING QUESTIONS.
6 min |
October - November 2019
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The Billboard
Take a gun and end it all, Sheryl, said a dark, mocking voice in the back of my mind. End it and all this pain and worry will be over.
4 min |
Dec/Jan 2020
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The Beekeeper's Dream
Hummmmmm…
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Dec/Jan 2020
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The Lady With The Lamp
How many historic figures made positive impacts because they answered God’s call? Perhaps a call they’d heard during a mysterious experience such as having a vision or dream or hearing a voice?
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Dec/Jan 2020
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Freedom Rings
The night I had the dream began like most nights—with me lying awake on my prison cot, each excruciating detail of my arrest and sentencing running through my head. It had been years since I’d been convicted for a crime I did not commit, but the entire ordeal was still fresh in my mind. As soon as I lay down in my cell to try to sleep, the replay would begin. This particular night started out no differently….
6 min |
Dec/Jan 2020
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The Unexplained Visitor
Laurin Bellg has practiced medicine for more than 20 years, specializing in critical care.
8 min |
Dec/Jan 2020
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'I Believe'
It was Christmas Eve morning, and I awoke with a mission: to find my lost cat, Baby-Girl. As I got ready, I could hear icy rain pelting the windows. I said a quick prayer for Baby-Girl. She was out there somewhere in the storm, I could just feel it. Sure, it had been six months since she’d gone missing, but I still had faith. It was the season for miracles, after all.
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Dec/Jan 2020
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Q&A Mastin Kipp
A CONVERSATION WITH THE BEST-SELLING AUTHOR AND LIFE COACH
7 min |
Oct/Nov 2017
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“Go To Lenox”
What could I possibly need at the Lenox Square mall? Or afford, for that matter.
3 min |
Oct/Nov 2017
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A Warning In The Night
We were the perfect fairy-tale couple.
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Oct/Nov 2017
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our moment
glenn’s habit was to wake up well before sunrise to go for a hike in the arizona wilderness. on summer sundays, we’d hike together for an hour before church. otherwise i’d still be sleeping. the morning he died, a saturday, i was wide awake. we said, “i love you,” and he kissed me goodbye. the last words he said to me were, “i’ll try to call from the top of the world,” the nickname for brown’s peak, in the four peaks wilderness.
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february/march 2017
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The Meaning Of Suffering
The Meaning Of Suffering
7 min |
Apr/May 2017
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The Sunset Moment
Ann Satterfield vividly remembers her first patient as a hospital chaplain intern in New York City.
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Apr/May 2017
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Secrets Of The Afterlife
Dr. Raymond Moody has dedicated his life to the afterlife. The 72-year old psychiatrist, philosopher and researcher is known as the dean of near-death-experience (NDE) studies, thanks to his groundbreaking 1975 bestseller, Life After Life. Mysterious Ways sat down with Dr. Moody to discuss the great beyond, the “nonsense of dying” and his own trip to the outskirts of eternity.
6 min |
October/November 2016
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Sarah's Siddur
The Western Wall was even more breathtaking than it looked in photographs.
3 min |
October/November 2016
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Love-Crossed Lives
Justin Peay and Alaina Lewis couldn’t stop bumping into each other.
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October/November 2016
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Finding Narnia
I discovered C. S. Lewis’s Chronicles of Narnia by a happy accident. I plucked The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe, the first book in the series of children’s stories about the magical land of Narnia, from a rack in my elementary school library. Then, almost as if that one drew the others, a family friend gave me all seven books in a boxed set for my next birthday.
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