The Seven, a prophetic novel by Michael H Brown  A coming sign? Events by a sinister personage? Disaster? In his first work of fiction, Brown pens the driving, suspenseful, and deeply spiritual story of a mysterious government property that harbors secrets relevant not only to a young cop who tries to investigate strange goings-on, but also to an equally mysterious and incredibly powerful old priest who joins forces with him to solve the mystery -- and try to prevent an end-times-like disaster!   CLICK HERE

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EVIL MAY BE ON THE RISE, BUT THERE ARE WAYS TO SHIELD ONESELF AND IN HOLINESS DEFEAT IT

Evil is best defeated through humility. There’s no sting when you have ridded yourself of “self.”

That doesn’t mean you’re supposed to lose your dignity, or neglect your needs. It means you’re to place all of God’s needs above yours and the needs of others on a par with your own; such renders evil harmless.

When there is love, faith, and humility, there is actually a "glow" around you. It is the bubble of protection. It's the radiation of the Holy Spirit. It envelops those who emulate Christ and forms around their beings like molding on a painting, like a museum’s sublime backlighting. Such is represented as a halo.

The more we conform to the desires of Christ, the more glory He sends around us. One boy who saw the "other side" saw Jesus "shooting down" grace through those who invoked Him (and spoke for Him). 

That comes with a sense of well-being, which is contact through love with God. 

With the touch of His favor is also a sharper intuition. We’re more perceptive. We see with a new clarity. Where sin and evil cloud our ability to choose wisely, holiness leads to wisdom. Where before we saw only a murky picture of the world (if we “saw” anything), we now view the spiritual landscape.

Our spiritual blinders are lifted and the God of signs sends more of them. Call them “signal grace.” We get confirmations.

This happens when God has responded to humility and the person has been patient with firm faith in the outcome to the end (along with resignation that if it’s not in God’s Will, it won’t happen). We must know how to go with the flow; as Sirach says, we should not try to stand against a raging stream; and to do that we have to know where the flow is going (which requires watchfulness).

Important point: we should never want anything too much -- except closeness to God.

That’s a key test of life, accomplished best through selflessness, which allows us to see straight. Along that path are God’s markers to orient us. He is involved with every aspect of our lives and as John Paul II said, “in the designs of Providence there are no mere coincidences.” The Lord can work through the subtlety of a conversation or can splash the sky with rainbows, can even skywrite, can exhibit startling specificity. We will never understand how He does it.

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