Although most of us have heard the term "everything happens for a reason", and we've all probably said it to comfort ourselves and other's when we're faced with an issue for which there seems to be no answer, I think many of us fail to really UNDERSTAND this term. Like many other sayings, the reason why we've heard this term stated over and over again is because there is truth within it.

This book leads the reader to question the hidden reasons behind certain events in their lives. If there really is a reason, then what could it be? In order to find the answer to this question, one might need to dig deep within their soul - but the fact is that there IS a reason for EVERYTHING we go through - although we may not discover it for many years.

The author's style of writing made this book an easy, and enjoyable read. Although it can be finished relatively quickly, its impact will last a lifetime.

Two days after losing my father, I was walking down the aisle in a bookstore looking for "Walking on the Wind", a book on Native American Spirituality. I have always believed that things happen for a reason from my own perspective, when my eyes made contact with this book I picked it up. As I glanced through the pages it was as if I didn't realize that it was about the afterlife and mediums, I had never really thought much about that stuff, especially mediums, and most likely, in my clear mind, wouldn't buy such a book...it wasn't until I had bought it and several days later started to read it, that I really realized what it was about. I never buy a book without knowing clearly what it is about, I always glance through the pages to get a good understanding of it, as I did with this book, but for some "reason" I didn't get the real picture of the book, just that it was a spritual book and seemed good.

Consequently, this book has spoken to me in a way that has opened me up to the accpetance and understanding of something that has been around me all my life; sensitivity to other planes.

On a flight from Denver to LA, returning to China where I live, after an unplanned return home for my father's failing health and finally death, I was sitting next to a man who, through gradual converstion, turned out to have psychic powers. He told me that I have psychic tendencies of some kind, that my father is very proud of me and that I have some lower abdominal blockage and should be careful by eating more fruits and vegetables. The last one was the clincher because I hadn't had a bowel movement (sorry) in almost 4 days!

I still hadn't started reading the book and didn't do so until the flight back to China.

Now, I just finished it 5 minutes ago and have learned much from this book. Of course, one person resounded that this book is only to make the author more well known, but as for me, I am coming from a very laymen background in this stuff so I need spoon feeding, unlike the select few who may already be well versed in this medium stuff. This book is clearly not written for the medium but for the "small", the person who knows little about this phenomenon. I wouldn't pick up a "Jack and Jill" book at 40 years of age and expect it to speak to me at any depth. There again "Everything Happens for a Reason".

Through reading this book I have become open to my father's passing, which I experienced first hand, standing at his death-bed-side remeniscing of the times we spent together and thanking him for some of the little things I may have never mentioned.

From the start, each event had been prefaced by a premonition where I knew what I had to do without any question; I had to return home, I had to stay with him through the night on the night of his passing (even though my mind was telling me to go home and sleep).

By reading this book, I now know he is with me and has visited me and expressed his on-going love for me, I even know that my most treasured pet had given me signs, 4 years ago when he passed, to let me know he is OK. I believe they are all happy and will be there for me, along with others that I may not even be aware of.

This book, no matter how simple and trite it may seen to other meduims, has deffinately spoken to me and has introduced and lead me to a new plane of perception.

Peacefully,
Reader