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This experience was probably the best thing that has ever happened to me. I say that because there is a reason for everything God allows you to go through in your life. The saying, “You have to go through something to get something” is true. Before gold can become gold, it has to go through fire. Readers that take this experience seriously and apply its meaning will find healing for themselves and will also be able to help family members, friends, co-workers and other people in general. What a blessing. Let me just tell you, I have had many experiences in life, have had many successes, but I am a better person now than I have ever been in my seventy-two years of life. I am not perfect, but much more conscious of what God expects of us. It’s either right or wrong, there is no in-between.

What a different world this would be if all people, or even if just the majority of people, would let God permeate their lives. I can live the rest of my life knowing more of what God expects me to be rather than thinking and acting selfishly. Let God permeate your being. I can tell you for sure that His presence watches over me and has helped me to become more of the person He wants all of us to be.

The big surprise to me was that I thought I was doing pretty well. I served as a deacon at the church; as the minister of music, having directed thirty-three consecutive Christmas Cantatas; taught Sunday school teachers; served on the church program committee and more. What we must understand is that God wants us to save souls.