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I am still flooded and inspired by the God winks you are sending to me, and I thank you from the bottom of my winking heart. Even so, I am happy to take a break from God winks to send along my annual Thanksgiving blessings and my suggestions for things, animals and people for which, and for whom, we should give thanks, but do not....Read more

Certain patterns are emerging from the flood of God winks I have received. The vast majority of your winks are completely non-extraordinary events that occur at completely extraordinary moments. They do not violate natural law but their appearance in your life is way more than a simple coincidence. What makes them wonderful to me is that you are...Read more

Two reasons above all keep me sharing God winks with you, my dear readers.

First, they are a source of hope for those of you who are in grief over the death of a loved one. You want to know that death is not the end of us, and I believe with you and your winks that death is definitely not the end of us. It ought to comfort you to know that ...Read more

When you scrape away the fun and silly, but charming, veneer of what is now the thoroughly secularized holiday of Halloween; when you get beyond the extorted candy of trick-or-treat; when you finish carving and lighting your last pumpkin; when you take off the ridiculous costume you wore to a Halloween party, and ...Read more

Q: My family had a much-beloved pet rabbit that we rescued/adopted from a hospital lab. I worked at the hospital as a medical photographer, and as such spent a lot of time in various operating rooms and labs. The hospital was doing research with female rabbits and after they were done the animals were euthanized. We adopted three of the ...Read more

Q: I have a God wink to tell you about. Our oldest son was killed by a drunk driver when he was 20 years old and a passenger in another car.

When he was much younger, he asked me to give him dollar bills for some change he had on hand, and I said fine. He then gave me $3 in pennies and I gave him three $1 bills. It became a running...Read more

One of the big takeaways from the flood of God winks I am receiving from you, dear readers, is that even spooky God winks are not always scary. Sometimes we receive messages from dead loved ones that violate natural law but those who receive them are not frightened by them at all. They are taken to be what they seem to be: a simple message from ...Read more

The only question now is, “What does Oct. 7 mean?”

The prophet Zachariah taught in chapter 4, verse 6, lo b’ chail v'lo b’koah ki im beruchi,“Not by might, nor by power, but by my spirit, saith the Lord of hosts.” This was the philosophy of Jewish survival for 2,000 years when we had to make due with piety ...Read more

We assume that all God winks are positive loving supportive messages from our dearly departed. That is not true. If our loved ones were not happy with our behavior while they were alive, why would we assume that they are all of a sudden warm and fuzzy and supportive after they die? F makes the point…

Q: Rev 21:4 says, “…there shall be...Read more

The unprecedented response from you, dear readers, in sending along your experiences with communications from dead people – a phenomenon we call God w inks – makes me humbly grateful. There is just so much real evidence that death is not the end of us. Much of this is beyond our natural reason, but none of this is beyond our need ...Read more

Flowers often appear in God winks. Here is one of my favorites:

Q: I just read your faith, miracles and Godwink column in today’s Palm Beach Post on Aug. 16, 2024. … And believe I had the most beautiful God wink of all time. After being with the man of my dreams, my perfect partner of 13 years, we went fishing one weekend...Read more

Q: If someone does not obey God’s commandments, like Adam and Eve didn’t, God cast them out. If I, or anyone, does things that God doesn’t like, will he cast me out, too?

I have had struggles in my life for a while now, financial and health, and I pray to God for help, but I think God won’t or doesn’t want to help me ...Read more

Q: I enjoy reading your column every week. I have been reading it since long before Tommy left. You were both so down to earth and understanding of different faith traditions. Thank you. I think I have a God Winks candidate.

Many years ago I was dreaming that the phone rang and my beloved uncle (and godfather) was on the line and ...Read more

The highest level of God winks is the appearance of the beloved dead person in some kind of visible form. It is an apparition and most of the reports I receive say that the apparition is translucent, not thick like a real person but definitely visible. These visitations from the other side when accompanied by verbal communications are the ...Read more

Q: The Catholic Church has many miracles that no other religion has, miracles like healings, apparitions, stigmata, incorruptibles, bi-locations, floating, reading minds, along with many Eucharistic miracles. What other faith had received so many blessings by God as an indication of what to believe? Is there anything else he must do to win you ...Read more

I am the perfect person to evaluate God Winks because I am enough of a believer in contact with the dead to acknowledge that some God Winks are real. I am also skeptical enough to know that everything we think is a wink is just not a wink. Here is my wink scale:

Level 1 God Wink: No violation of natural law or verbal communication. These are ...Read more

Thanks, dear readers, for sending me signs that you have received from loved ones who have died. I try not to include signs that are either clearly contrived or not really signs at all but just ordinary coincidences. The point of including these “God Winks” is to support those of you who believe, as I do, and as our faiths do, that death is ...Read more

Q: Dear Rabbi Gellman, thank you for your amazing and sorely needed ministry.

I would like you to share your thoughts on the habit of our current culture to “read a book by its cover”. Of course, the age-old saying is "Never judge a book by its cover”, but everywhere I turn these days, I feel people are paying too much attention to the ...Read more