Heavenly Encounters: Three With Embraced

	Three With Embraced
More Heavenly Encounters	Scott's Good-bye Recently, my aunt passed away, and my cousin was very upset and sad. I told her that reading Embraced By The Light would make her happy to know that her mother was in a beautiful place. But I know what it is like to feel sad from missing someone who has passed. I know because I lost my best friend, Scott, when I was 18 and he was 19. A better, kinder person you could not find than Scott. He never drank, smoked, or did drugs. He died while running a 10k race, which he had done many times before. He died instantly of a massive heart attack. The doctors worked on him for 3 hours because they could not believe a healthy, 19-year-old could just die of a heart attack. I was away at college at the time and was the only one in our circle of friends that Scott had not seen or talked to recently before dying. Needless to say, I was devastated. But the night we buried him, I was given a gift. I was lying in bed, weeping and asking God to take me also because my heart hurt so much. I didn't think I could live with that much hurt. But then as I lay praying, I felt someone sit on my bed. There was not an actual body there, but I knew it was Scott. Our souls spoke to each other. He told me that because I was the only one he had not seen before he died, he had come to say good-bye. He told me that he would stay until I fell asleep and that I would never have him like that again. Being 18, I just said I would never go to sleep then. But of course that didn't happen, and I fell into a peaceful sleep. The next morning I awoke, still missing Scott, but I felt at peace. It has been 18 years since Scott's death, and I still miss him dearly. I know I will always remember that night as if it just happened. And I am grateful. Tracy Dankmyer

	Life is for Experience Many years ago I was in a dead end job, and I started worrying more than normal and became very depressed. I had a wonderful wife and children, but I couldn't shake the depression. For most of my life I had wondered why I was here, and now my situation seemed to heighten my desire to know the reason behind my life. Suddenly one night while in a deep sleep, I was unexpectedly told the answer. Either God or an angel whispered into my soul three wonderful words. The "whisper" was very quiet but it caused me to awaken instantly, and I knew this had been no dream. The voice had permeated me, body and soul, and the message was perfectly clear. I repeated the three words over and over until I was positive I wouldn't forget. Then I went back to sleep—but now with a big smile on my face because I knew the reason for my life. First thing the next morning, I rolled over and told my wife about the "voice," but then it hit me: I couldn't recall the three words that had been so perfectly clear in the night! I did remember their meaning, and the best I could translate was this: "Life is for experience." I had heard the words in God's language which was beautiful and perfect, but the English translation is flawed. Anyway, the "voice" changed my life drastically for a while, but then I slowly fell back into my depression. Then I read Embraced By The Light, and I remember saying out loud while reading it: "Oh my God..." because the voice had given me the same message about life's purpose which Betty describes in her book. Finally I got the message, and this time it changed me forever. Depression fell away, and I started living my life in a positive way without fear and worry about death. As a confirmation of my "knowledge" about heaven and God, my mother—who passed away last spring—"sent" me a message from heaven. About 10 years ago, she had planted a young dogwood tree in her yard, which in all those years had never bloomed. But the spring she died, that dogwood had at least a dozen beautiful blooms on it. My dad and I knew the significance of the message. Most people would say it was a coincidence, but as Betty says: "very few things in life are coincidences." I am a firm believer. Dan

	A Lesson Learned While driving north one hot, sunny afternoon with my boyfriend Danny, I was reading Embraced by the Light—a wonderful book full of good things about loving people for who they are and not for how we think they should be. I was reading that we should not judge people based on their looks alone and was feeling all full of love for others as we drove along. Soon we stopped at a rest area, and I went to the restroom. As I entered, I noticed a group of little girls and their older sister. They were noisy, untidy, uncombed hair, and very dirty looking. I did not speak to them, but I knew they could see the look of disdain on my face. I thought, "How could they act so awful and look so terrible..." While I was in the restroom stall, I heard them leave one by one, and I felt relieved. But just then, the older girl, who had not left, rapped solidly on my stall door and said, "Have a wonderful day, Carole." Then she left. Chills ran up and down my spine, and I asked myself quite in amazement, "How could she have known my name?" Then I remembered what I had just read in Embraced By The Light. In the short time it had taken me to walk from the car to the restroom, I had forgotten what I had been reading. "Love one another" the book had said. Today I appreciate the gift I was given on that hot day. I will never forget those words: "Have a wonderful day, Carole." You know I could never have walked a mile in those little girls shoes for they wore none, and I thank God for those little shoeless angels who taught me a lesson I so needed to learn. Carole Lynne McCormick

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