Jennifer Skiff’s “God Stories”
    
This website has been established to promote the book and TV series
God Stories: Inspiring Encounters with the Divine
and to provide a place where people can submit their own God stories for possible publication.

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"God Stories is the most uplifting and inspiring book I've read this year!"
Dr. Bob Hieronimus, Radio Talk Show Host

CALL FOR STORIES

Do you have a story where an act of kindness by another person changed your life and proved to you God exists?

Do you have a story where you showed compassion or kindness to another (person or animal) and received a divine gift in return?
 

We are now collecting true stories of compassion with divine consequences.
If you have one, we’d love to hear it.
Please submit here.
SUBMIT

NOW COLLECTING STORIES FOR GOD STORIES II
WE WANT TO HEAR YOURS!

What is a God story? A God story is something that happens to you that is so profound it confirms your belief in the existence of a Divine Power. It is when you receive personal proof that God exists.

Do you have a God Story? If you have a God Story we'd like to hear about it. The story you submit must be something that happened to you (not a friend or family member) and it must be true.

How to submit your story: Please review our sample stories. Then press SUBMIT. You will be asked for your personal details along with a brief description of your story. If your story is chosen to be considered by editors, Jennifer Skiff will contact you by email or phone to set up an interview. She will then edit and/or rewrite your story for inclusion in her upcoming book. Thank you for sharing your story.

SUBMIT
 

   “Does God exist? Why am I here? Is there more? These questions nag at us incessantly throughout our lives. But the answers are forever elusive, always just out of reach. Today we are fact-driven people: we need evidence before we form opinions and often dismiss events that can’t be logically explained. Yet we desperately want the security that comes with having a certain future. The search for these answers has divided people into two camps; those who look for solace in organized religion and its promise of an afterlife and those who consider themselves spiritual but not religious: they believe their souls are going somewhere but they’re just not sure exactly where. Regardless of what camp you’re in, we all want the same thing. We want confirmation that what we believe is true. We want proof of modern day encounters with the Divine.

    "As you turn the pages in this book a chill may overwhelm you, your eyes may fill with tears and the hairs on your arms may suddenly stand as the answers to the questions you’ve always wanted to know become apparent.”        Jennifer Skiff

Sunday, April 26, 2009 by Julia Duin: 'Stories' abounds with God's grace

I've long been perplexed with the problem of unanswered prayer, so I 
was intrigued to hear of a book recounting prayers that God did answer.

When CNN correspondent Jennifer Skiff found herself miraculously 
healed of bone-marrow cancer at the age of 32, she began collecting 
stories of people who, like her, had received proof that God exists.

It had to be a definable moment or incident that could not ordinarily 
have taken place without divine intervention. She was open to hearing 
from anyone, no matter their religion or lack thereof. Stories began 
to pour in and her book, "God Stories," was published Nov. 11. Eight 
weeks after its release, it was in its sixth printing. A television 
series based on the book is in the making.

What stood out about the anecdotes is that many of the writers weren't 
particularly virtuous or deserving. Many were in a crisis and seeking 
God, but others were just plodding along when an epiphany hit them.

"You don't have to be involved with a church to hear from God," the 
author, now 47, told me when I called her in Australia (her second 
home) last weekend. "You don't have to be a specific religion to have 
an experience of God or the divine."

"God Stories" is very 21st century in that it shies away from anything 
absolute, as in set doctrines of belief, instead relying on pure 
nuggets of experience. There are lots of inspirational tales of people 
delivered from car accidents, failed marriages, suicides and all 
manner of illnesses. It has the same wondrous quality I've seen in 
books about angelic visitations.

"Basically, they're testimonies," Miss Skiff said. "Christians have 
been doing this for years. All I am doing is introducing this to the 
mainstream market." She added she is a Christian "who thinks Jesus 
Christ is a really cool dude."

What is it underlying the popularity of books like this - and media 
phenomena like Scottish soprano Susan Boyle, whose soaring performance 
on "Britain's Got Talent" have landed her millions of Internet hits 
and legions of fans who watch her over and over?

Why do many of us weep a bucketful of tears as we watch her? Is it 
hope? Is it beauty? Is it some childhood hurt that never was assuaged? 
Is it the victory over rejection for all us plain Janes?

There's so much human longing there. If I could only bottle Miss 
Boyle's invincible spirit and the scent of God's graciousness in "God 
Stories," I'd be set for life. Both have that indefinable something 
people long for in this violent and tragic age that is open to the 
common person who seeks God but doesn't feel worthy to approach Him.

So many of us feel like failures in the way we barely make it through 
each day, and it's not news that for the most part, we'll never 
measure up to greatness. So when we see one of us rise up from the mud 
and shine - or perceive a hand from heaven extended our way and our 
desperate prayers unexpectedly answered - we flock toward news of this 
light like rain-drenched creatures to a warm fire.

No conditions are attached to our coming and resting there. People 
don't want to be judged or found lacking, Miss Skiff told me. They 
don't want to be defined as religious, but spiritual. The idea of 
rules and obligations; the scent of "religion" repels these lost 
multitudes. But the scent of grace does not.

  Inspire Me!