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I was a voracious reader at a very young age. By age 10, I was reading books like David Copperfield, reading hours and hours every day....devouring hundreds of books like a person who was starving for food. Sadly, in later years, I have not read as much, but fortunately, the benefits of my early endeavors were never lost. I have no doubt that those efforts early on have helped me in so many ways through the years; in my understanding of life, the way things work, my appreciation of knowledge, my communication skills. This book, "Heaven is for Real" is the first book I have read cover to cover in one sitting in decades. It is an easy read, but a powerful book as well. In my teens, I was very scientifically minded, and a self-professed atheist. If it didn't make scientific, logical sense...if I couldn't see it in mathematical black and white, it wasn't for me and I had no use for it. I went to Sunday School (forced), but my many questions and apprehensions could not be answered intelligently or proven (and hence the very definition of "Faith"). I simply could not take what were to me essentially fairy tales as Truth on Faith. Various personal experiences along the way in the path of life gave me pause and reason to rethink and redefine my own personal understanding of God, Energy, Mother Nature, Universe, All That Is...whatever you want to call it that we come to find out exists, but can not be explained rationally, scientifically or with absolute logic within our own limited, physical, Human abilities and limitations. In short, I evolved from a steadfast atheist, to a believer in something I called "God, Goddess, All That Is"...to a now more "religious" acceptance in God with the help of reading this book. Maybe from being a non-believer, to a believer with reservations, to now being personally comfortable with being in greater harmony with this higher power we call God. I highly recommend reading this book. I could not put it down. My eyes were teary often, not with sadness but perhaps with deep empathy for the Burpo Family's trials and also with the joy of revelation and understanding...also, I love happy endings :-) The story rang true to me(I am quite adept at smelling out BS). It was completely unacceptable for me to believe a 4 year old child could invent a NDE out of body experience, the meeting of a deceased great grandfather and a miscarried sister without any prior knowledge. Not to mention Angels, God, Jesus, Gabriel...with numerous detail and matter of fact relaying of the experience. A 3 minute experience of a 4 year old child in death's grip relayed to his parents over the course of weeks, months, years with such vivid recollection. It did not bother me that this was in the context of a Minister's family nor did I discount Colton's experience for that reason. If anything, it just made the story more perfect as Todd's interpretation as a Minister was quite natural and believable in view of Colton's relaying of his experience. It appears very obvious to me that perhaps the Minister himself learned definitively more about God from his 4 year old son than perhaps years of religious training, a humbling thought. This book put together for me events in my personal experience I can now understand with child-like beauty and understanding and acceptance without the need to rationalize. I'm also now very comfortable with the power of prayer and without compunction to use it often, daily in fact. Apprehensions regarding eventual and inexorable Death and the great beyond have vanished as well. Although I read this book in a few hours, it took me a week to digest it. Perhaps I'm digesting it still... If you read this book, you will come away making one of two choices. You either believe this story is a complete fraud, a fiction, a fabrication...or you simply recognize the simple truth and beauty that "Heaven is for Real"... I choose the latter with no qualms or second thoughts. Thank you Burpo Family for sharing your story!!!!! With Peace and Love..... :-)

This book is incredible and will certainly change your thinking about Heaven in realistic terms. It won't change your beliefs if you believe in God and Heaven, but it will set a little more reality into your thinking. Heaven is so often treated as a fairy tale place where everyone goes when they die, which many console themselves with at a time of grief, but never think of in terms of reality the rest of the time. Colton Burpo will tell you differently! At age three he was whisked away temporarily to that blessed home of God when his life hung in the balance on an operating table in Nebraska, dying from a ruptured appendix and at least a week of deadly infection coursing through his body as doctors failed to accurately diagnose his condition. Following a miraculous immeditate healing after Dr's had given up any hope for his survival, Colton began sharing his experience with his parents, a Wesleyan Pastor and his wife who were at first a little shocked and slightly skeptical of what they were hearing from their now four year old son. Things he couldn't have known before such as a baby sister he met in heaven who died in their mothers womb and had never been mentioned in front of Colton. As well as the Great Grandfather who died twenty five years before his birth, but whom he visited in heaven and described in full detail. Many more stark revelations would follow from the lips of this child over the course of the next four years or so as his memory of his trip to heaven was triggered by topics of conversation on earth. Very easy to read, I read this book in two nights and couldn't put it down. Very well written, packed full of interesting revelation from the heart of a child who wasn't old enough to read in the bible of the things he began to share with accurate detail. I bought two copies, and I'm here to buy more to give away to friends. Every Christian should read this book which has sold well over 8 million copies. Written in 2010 by Colton's dad, Todd Burpo, who very nicely relays a great collection of revelation shared by Colton over the span of 7 years. You will be challenged and awe struck with the biblical detail and the childlike perspective with which it was shared. Paperback, 162 pages and now a new major motion picture based on the book, available separately. Whether or not you realize it, HEAVEN IS FOR REAL! Don't wait until your dead to make this discovery, or you won't go there. There is also another very real place waiting for those who didn't give their life completely to Christ in this life! I HIGHLY RECOMMEND THIS BOOK!

This absolutely sensationally truly wonderful book (with a fwd by Sheila Walsh - who has worked with Cliff Richard eg 7" p/s duet single Driftin' released on on DJM records in 1983) should be read in conjunction with similar books on the subject of Christian Religion:- 1.Akiane (artbook) 2.Divine revelation of Heaven by Mary K.Baxter 3.Divine revelation of Hell by Mary K Baxter The THREE persons of GOD (ie a Trinity) are all three people who are cleared identified in this book ie No.1 GOD (the Father) - (Huge); No.2 "God the Son" (ie Jesus Christ); and No.3 God The Holy Spirit (with a blue face). Chapter 17 "Two Sisters" is an absolute fantastic revelation of Joy to anyone famous in Showbiz such as DAME Olivia Newton John KBE OBE who has lost THREE still born babies after the successful birth of her one daughter Chloe. Maximum age of everybody in Heaven is exactly Thirty-Three (ie 33) ie exactly the same age as Jesus Christ when he was cruxified on a standard issue wooden cross with exactly THREE iron nails - one nail through both his hands PLUS the third nail through both his feet on the direct orders of: The Romans + The Jewish leaders in charge of the Temple who were running the Temple (dedicated to GOD the father) as a sort of "bank raid job" were by then totally fed up / completely pissed off with this public nuisance "blaspheming" (a right "pain up the armpit") prophet Jesus Christ and thus they all wanted him: out of the way and finished forever / professionally ruined / dead and buried / humiliated / destroyed ... The Jewish leaders were (of course) completely wrong as Jesus Christ triumphed to infinity so that's why Two of MY very best mates in British Showbiz are now alive in Heaven ie Tony Meehan(The Shadows) & Capital Radio DJ Kenny Everett PLUS Rik Mayall PLUS many other famous VIP Christians eg Rev'd Martin Luther King; David Bowie; George Michael; Aretha Franklin; Donna Summer; Mary Whitehouse. This fascinating & intellectually absorbing book has now sold in excess of 11 million copies as of the Autumn 2021.!!!

This book is old. I read it many many moons ago and have since then bought it many times as gifts. Great story. Help keep faith. Definitely worth the read.

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Es un libro sorprendente. Te cambia el concepto de la muerte y hace que uno tenga más fe de la que tenía antes de leer el libro.