Encounters: Beyond Logic

By Judy Hardy Simmons

Have you ever wondered if you are the only person who has witnessed or experienced events in your life which are unexplainable within the boundaries of the known laws of nature? Contained within these pages are true accounts by individuals who have shared their stories.

Some of these stories relay messages from the threshold of the beyond, inspire one person to action, comfort the sick or injured and heal with a touch. For those who choose to believe, my personal encounters confirm to me, there is life after death.

Vision of Hope is an extraordinary chapter about one cancer survivor who has chosen to spend her life spreading joy and hope to many cancer families. Read her fascinating and inspiring story and how her dream has come true. Check out her website: Little Pink Houses of Hope.

• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse
• Release date: Nov 15, 2011
• ISBN: 9781467036535

Judy Hardy Simmons

JUDY HARDY SIMMONS is a previously published author of poetry, three books which include Special are YOU, Where is Heaven? and Ten for Teens and Tweens and a technical team writer of technology textbooks funded by the National Science Foundation and NCSU.(2004) She is an honor graduate of North Carolina State University and a retired teacher.

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Contents

Preface

DEDICATION

CHAPTER ONE

CHAPTER TWO

CHAPTER THREE

CHAPTER FOUR

CHAPTER FIVE

CHAPTER SIX

CHAPER SEVEN

Scripture

Special Dedication

VISION OF HOPE

CHAPTER EIGHT

ABOUT ME… .

Chapter NINE

EPILOGUE

Preface

Throughout life, each person builds through personal experiences, a lifetime of memories upon which one can reflect and remember and share with others if one chooses. Sometimes, under unique circumstances, one may not understand,fully, the impact of an event or believe at that moment—Did this really happen to me?

Each one of us, who is a friend, a sister, a wife, a husband, a brother, a parent, or a grandparent, do not want to be labeled or viewed as strange or weird". However, if you are a communicator, at some point in time, there is a burning desire to share unusually unexplainable life moments, in a sincere effort to give hope, peace and reassurance to others who may be wondering, in similar circumstances, if they are indeed in full possession of their mental faculties.

Do I think I am the only one who has witnessed or been a participant in these unique events? Absolutely not. However, until recently, there have been but a few who have shared their stories with me, including a young lady whom I have known for many years and a family member. Recently, I have added a very personal episode described to me by a church member, in her testimony to our congregation. She is a cancer survivor and she received a profound message which I have titled in the book, a new Vision of Hope. It is a wonderful project to assist other cancer patients and their families as they journey through the process of diagnosis, treatment and recovery. Her optimism and enthusiasm is certainly contagious! The manner in which she received inspiration for this project is dramatic and compelling.

I feel that one has to be open, receptive and quiet in their own spirit to receive these gifts. In other words, you have to be ready for certain knowledge, recognize it and accept it as a gift; even if you do not understand the implications until later in life. In some incidences, one may never understand the true purpose of these gifts but that does not diminish the joy and wonder of having received them.

All of these true events occurred between the years of 1974 and 2011. In this book, the episodes are written in chronological order. At times, there are many years between the incidents. In the last few years, perhaps I have reached a higher level of receptive and anticipatory mind-set because the messages are more frequent. Since these encounters are beyond the normal bounds of explanations within the known laws of nature, they are, indeed, beyond logic.

DEDICATION

This book is dedicated, with a heart filled with loving memories, to my mother, Lois Marion Hardy Warren, my beloved Aunt Elisabeth Hardy Pollard, and Mamie Crain Hardy, the prolific poet of Irish descent who was my Grandmother.

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Eye of the Soul

CHAPTER ONE

Eye of the Soul

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