My cell phone rang the other day and when I looked at the Caller ID, it said “God”. God? C’mon. Which of my friends was pulling a prank? It had to be some spiritual telemarketer!

“This is Cindy”, I said, with a touch of skepticism in my voice.

“Is this Cindy Smith, the co-author of A New Fearless You: Freedom From Hide and Seek and Other Games Grownups Play?” The voice said. “I have read your book.”

OMG-  If God had read it, that was even better than being on the New York Times best seller list!

And, the voice definitely did not sound familiar. Older. Kind. But not familiar. Now I knew it had to be a joke, because not enough people have bought our book. When we wrote it, we had a message to deliver to the world.  You have to find the answers inside yourself instead of  outside yourself. How? Stop playing the grown-up version of Hide and Seek- hide from your  fears and seek its polar opposite.

“Really, you read our book? Wait a minute. Do they really have cell phones in heaven?”

“Of course we have cell phones in heaven,” he said. “The technology we have makes your technology on earth look primitive. And I read your book on my new Kindle”

“Oh, you have ereaders in heaven?”  I replied.  C’mon. I knew Amazon was huge, but did it reach all the way to heaven?

“How did you find me?” I asked.

“That question is beneath you Cindy. Since you’re an Internet Marketing whiz, you should know that I Googled you. ” he replied.

I should have seen that one coming! I knew I should never have put that Facebook page up.

“But I know where you have been all along,” he said. “I never lost you; it is you who lost me.”

Was there a celestial GPS tracker in my phone or something?

“But how do I know this is God?” I said. “Trust me, you don’t have enough minutes on your cell phone plan to prove it.”

“No worries. I have unlimited talk and texting,” he said.  “But therein lays the problem Cindy. You have always wanted proof. In fact and I quote from your book on p. 166: ‘I have conversations with God.’ Isn’t that what we’re having now … a conversation?”

“Hmm. But normally I do all the talking and you don’t answer back. And I often wonder with all the people who talk to you if you have time to listen.”

“And just as you had a message to deliver in A New Fearless You, I have a message for you,” he replied. “I DO listen, but more importantly, I answer. My answers are just a little unconventional, not what you would expect with all your high tech devices.

You won’t find them on Facebook or Twitter. You’ll find them in your heart and soul everyday.”

Then the phone went dead. Did I just get a dropped call, or did God hang up on me? I desperately tried to call the number back. But of course, it was disconnected.

And then it hit me. God had said what he wanted to say. Very simply. He does listen and he does answer. Sometimes we just need to look for the answers in the right place.

Did I imagine this whole call? Dream it up?

God only knows.

Cindy Smith