By Lee Graves
The power of the experience often is life-altering. Fear of death vanishes. Love of life blossoms. Spirituality strengthens.
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Dannion Brinkley had just told his friend he had to get off the phone - his mother had always warned him about using a telephone during an electrical storm. The next thing he knew, a lightning bolt surged into his body through the phone, fused his shoes to the floor and threw him into the air.
Realizing the peak of one’s human potential is a divine grace promised when that wing is alive and spiritually alert. Its paralysis, however, means paralysis of the anatomical system of the human spirit; we briefly refer to this as the “poisoning of spirit.”
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When Gregg Nome was 24 years old, he slipped into the churn beneath a waterfall and began to drown, his body pummeled against the sandy riverbed. What he saw there surprised him.