And all of a sudden, simultaneously I heard Christ's voice, and I was totally stunned.

And the thing that occurred to me was that this stuff is actually true.

This is touched by heaven.

Everyday encounters with God, those moments when heaven and earth collide.

We see God, we see his hand reaching out to us, attempting to get our attention, inviting

us into a closer relationship.

Here we share stories of encounter with angels divine

intervention prophetic dreams visions near-death experiences big and little god incidents i'm your host

trapper jack welcome so glad you're here at episode 154 close encounters of the christ kind

our guest today actually named this episode his name is rich, and interesting that the actor who played the role in

Close Encounters is another Richard, Richard Dreyfus.

You remember? They're both lost.

If you remember Richard Dreyfus, Close Encounters, he's out in his utility truck.

He's trying to find his way somewhere.

He's stopped in the middle of the road.

He's got his Rand McNally out. He's trying to find someplace and then zap. Here comes the encounter.

As happened with our Richard and our story today,

the encounter, Christ, the Christ kind.

And in both cases, it was like, whoa, what was that?

And it leads them on this search, this hunt for something higher, right?

Literally higher. The higher in our story is for

Richard to become Father Rich. It's a close encounter of the Christ kind here on Touched by Heaven,

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