People who believe that they experience psychic or portentous feelings and thoughts often say that they are "being told" of future evil. This raises the question of where such omens come from. While some believe that they are from supposed spirits and mystical sources, others think they may come from God Himself. Yet, is it God, divine Life and Love, who is telling us of impending ill fortune or death?
This is a question that confronted me at a time when my grandfather was under medical supervision, and not expected to recover. For several days I felt as if something bad was going to happen. When he passed on, I thought that I had received a sinister forewarning. A few months later, when a similar feeling of disquiet was followed by the news of someone else's demise, I became concerned that I had become a foreteller of death.
Such a thought upset me greatly. Not only was I distressed by the accompanying physical disturbance, and alarmed that the situation might continue in the years ahead, but I was deeply afraid that such presentiments were coming to me from God.
