"I had to be obedient, right? And the Voice within me said to take the train."

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When Anita heard an inner voice in prayer name another state where she was to go and live, she dismissed it. The voice returned with more clarity.

God was calling her to leave everything behind and go where He was sending her. The instruction was specific: take the train. Anita boarded, unaware that heaven had already provided her, an angel, to guide her.

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An amazing story of encounter. A bit long, but worth every minute.

Doctor Encounters Mary in Medjugorje... Then Loses 2 Children (Her Faith Will INSPIRE You) https://youtu.be/Ted3YKXCd6M?si=iOfQBPyTX1p_BC9x

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"The mortar shells and rockets were falling all around us. There were loud explosions. So, I turned over and fell back to sleep"

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There is a war on. The battle over our minds.

Last week's conversation with Denny Thompson left me pondering one unforgettable sentence: "Nothing really matters except getting Home to God." Despite the loss of his eyesight, and arm, and a leg, his mind was free to experience joy and peace.

Then an old recording unexpectedly resurfaced, taking me back to a war movie eleven years ago. This memorable night taught me the same lesson as Denny.

Add to that a Vietnam veteran whose astonishing peace while under fire still leaves me shaking my head.

Suddenly, these three seemingly unique stories, all have something in common… The battle for freedom, and independence, within our own minds.

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"I was in this darkness. and this huge, wrinkly, beautiful old person's hand came down from above, and scooped me up, and I heard, 'Trust in me, and everything will be all right.'"

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Denny Thompson was 38 years old when a motorcycle accident left him in a coma for months. Doctors weren't optimistic. His family faced impossible decisions.

But while unconscious, Denny experienced something he still struggles to explain. A strange place. Questions. Childlike joy. Darkness. And a moment that would permanently change how he understood life.

Then he woke up.

What followed should have led to anger, despair, and asking why. Instead… something else happened. This is one of the most unforgettable conversations I've ever recorded -- and one of the clearest examples I've heard of how an encounter with God can reorder everything.

Listen all the way through. The flower opens slowly. "What if God showed you that nothing here matters nearly as much as you think?"

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"I stood up and I was in shock. It was the first time in 15 months, since breaking my back, I was completely pain-free."

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We revisit one of the most unforgettable stories in Touched by Heaven history, Rich shares what happened after fifteen months of pain from a crushed vertebra left him wondering if this was simply life now.

A former naval aviator and anesthesiologist, Rich never expected healing to come through a relic of Saint Jude--the apostle often called the saint of impossible causes.

After attending Mass and venerating a fragment of Saint Jude's forearm, everything changed. But this story isn't just about physical healing. It's about intercession, faith, unexpected encounters with God, and the fruit that follows.

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"I had never heard of Fatima, Lourdes, or Guadalupe. And then I saw her. She was heavenly, and beautiful."

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Gina had never heard of Marian apparitions--Fatima, Lourdes, Guadalupe--none of them. And then suddenly, she began having visions she couldn't explain.

She discovered that this kind of experience could change where you go to church on Sunday.

In this episode, Gina shares her experiences, including an end-times Marian vision and a powerful encounter with her mother in heaven that brought unexpected healing and closure.

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"Live your life with arms wide open, today is where your book begins."

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There is one day each year that seems to echo across history. Fatima in 1917. Akita in 1973. A mysterious moment during adoration in San Francisco in 2023. Different places. Same invitation: return to God.

In this episode, I revisit one of the most talked-about episodes of Touched by Heaven and ask a simpler question than before--not what every sign means, but what they're asking of us.

Along the way come unexpected clues through songs like Unwritten and Anything Goes, and a surprising realization: perhaps the ending isn't fixed. Perhaps, even now, the story is still being written.

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"We didn't know about the Netflix documentary. We didn't know these two young men. We only knew that the Holy Spirit guided us here."

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Holly and Lauren stood quietly at the gravesites in a cemetery in Strongsville, Ohio, wondering why prayer had led them there. During a class assignment through Encounter School of Ministry, my two new friends had asked the Holy Spirit where they were supposed to go and pray. Neither woman knew the names on the stones or the tragic story connected to them.

Two men eventually approached and explained that these were the graves of two young men killed when a teenage girl drove her car into a building at nearly 100 miles an hour. The case later became the subject of The Crash, one of Netflix's most watched documentaries.

Holly and Lauren exchanged stunned looks. Why had they been guided here?

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"He looked at me, and said, "Go ahead and get up and walk towards the door." I got up and started to walk. I didn't even need to reach the door. All the pain was gone. I busted out crying. I knew that I was healed."

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Aaron reaching out during Pentecost week feels fitting somehow. Pentecost marks the birth of the Church and the outpouring of the Holy Spirit into the world -- an outpouring still seen today through miraculous healings, answered prayers, prophetic gifts, and lives transformed in unexpected ways.

Aaron's story includes the healing of his sciatica after prayers from Dr. Issam Nemeh, whose ministry was also central to my very first podcast, Blind Faith Live. Though Aaron admits he has wrestled with skepticism over the years, he now says the evidence is becoming impossible to ignore -- not only through his own experience, but through the many stories shared on Touched by Heaven and Blind Faith Live.

Dr. Nemeh: https://www.pathtofaith.com/

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"I looked at Paul and said to myself, 'I want a husband, but… it better not be him.' Paul, meanwhile, mumbled, 'I just met my wife… I just met my wife.' And, I said, 'I don't think so.'" (laughter)

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As Elizabeth and I prepare for our fourth pilgrimage to Medjugorje with listeners this October, I was reminded of a beautiful conversation I recorded three years ago in Medjugorje with Monica and her husband Paul at visionary Marija's pansion.

That memory came rushing back after hearing "Waltzing Matilda" playing in my head while receiving a WhatsApp message from Monica in Australia.

Their remarkable love story is wrapped in faith, providence, humor, and the loving influence of the Blessed Mother.

In the show notes, you'll find pilgrimage details through Padre Pio Pilgrimages, including information about where we'll be staying in October, along with a link to episode 404 featuring Michael Campanelli -- founder of Padre Pio Pilgrimages -- and his powerful Medjugorje conversion story.

Elizabeth and I hope you can join us this October!

Medjugorje Pilgrimage: https://padrepiopilgrimages.com/trapperjack/

Episode 404: https://touchedbyheaven.net/size/5/?search=tbh+404

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"I write books about things I don't know. That's how this Near Death Experience book began…" - Michael Zigarelli

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What happens when people clinically die… and then come back with stories they can't explain?

In this episode, I speak with professor and author Michael Zigarelli of Messiah University in Pennsylvania about his book Evidence for Heaven, a fascinating look at documented Near Death Experiences from around the world.

Michael has studied countless cases involving children, the blind, atheists, medical patients, and others who describe remarkably similar encounters beyond this life.

Evidence for Heaven - click here to see on Amazon https://a.co/d/0ginEV7b

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"We had looked everywhere in my brother's house, for his Will. That's when I had the dream that helped me. Never, would I have looked in the garage."

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What if lost things are sometimes God's way of helping us find Him?

In this episode, Diana and Amy share remarkable stories of things missing and seemingly impossible to recover--a lost will revealed in a dream, treasured items found through prayer, and surprising help through the intercession of Saint Anthony of Padua.

But these stories become something more than "lost and found." They point to a playful, personal God. Maybe, when we find stuff, it's just God's way of helping us, find Him.

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