Losing Dakota, Finding God - TBH 396
Touched by Heaven - Everyday Encounters with God
Philip Keller
4.8 • 685 Ratings
🗓️ 7 December 2025
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
"I was living on the reservation, with my father, drunk, my mother, drunk, and pointing a rifle at me and my siblings."
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In this moving episode, we meet Susy—a woman whose life has been marked by deep loss, relentless struggle, and extraordinary moments of grace. Raised amid instability on an Indian reservation and searching for belonging across multiple faith traditions, Susy carried trauma into adulthood. She would lose her husband to cancer and later her daughter, Dakota, whose life was overshadowed by spiritual torment and addiction.
Yet through every season, God kept breaking through. From miraculous interventions—including one that stopped her from ending her own life—to the unexpected moment she discovered "Touched by Heaven" on Coast to Coast A.M., Susy began to see that she had been pursued by a faithful God all along. This is a story of a soul relentlessly loved back home.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm just driving down the street and I get, and I'm telling you, I get this vision right in front of me, |
| 0:14.3 | my daughter holding up her hand, the one that passed away, holding up her hands, their silhouettes |
| 0:18.9 | kind of, and I see this hand reaching down to her. And I just gasped so loud, I had sobs. Because I've been asking, |
| 0:29.1 | Jesus, please give me a sign that she at least heard your voice, saw you at the time of death. |
| 0:36.8 | This is toucheded by Heaven. |
| 0:38.7 | Everyday encounters with God, those moments when heaven and earth collide. |
| 0:43.1 | And we see God in these encounter stories with angels, divine intervention, prophetic dreams, |
| 0:47.7 | visions, near death experiences. |
| 0:49.5 | Welcome, I'm your host, Trapper Jack. |
| 0:51.5 | First and foremost, what's your story? |
| 0:53.6 | Hmm? |
| 1:13.0 | Just stop things right here and come here to touchby Heaven.net. Leave me a little note about your angel encounter, divine intervention, prophetic dream, vision, near death experience. And the rest is up to me and I'll get back to you. Okay. All right, this week I've been bumping into the hero's journey. Familiar? Without the hero's journey, we have no Star Wars. This is what inspired George Lucas to create that story the way he did. Bottom line is, it's like, you got an |
| 1:18.7 | average day going along, and then this thing happens, and because of that, that thing happens, |
| 1:23.8 | and because of that, this other thing happens until the good guys win and there's |
| 1:28.0 | victory. All right? And we're all on that hero's journey. You, me, all of us, until we stand |
| 1:33.1 | before Jesus in heaven. That's the goal, right? The victory. Okay, so let's go into Susie's life. |
| 1:39.1 | So whether in this physical world or in this spiritual world, we are on the hero's journey. |
| 1:44.6 | My dad started drinking a lot. There would be a lot of violence. Those times my mom would |
| 1:49.8 | drink and take pills. And I know she had a, had to be a 22 rifle and had a pistol of some |
| 1:58.8 | sorts. She lined the three of us up and she'd be crying or cussing and threatened to shoot us. |
| 2:06.2 | This is the hero's journey for Susie. |
| 2:10.3 | Can you hear me now? |
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