An amazing story

I have gotten into the habit of putting holds on the current best sellers in both fiction and non-fiction. Most of the time I return them right away after reading the book jacket and deciding that they would not interest me. Heaven is for Real is an exception.

Written by a pastor in a small town in Nebraska near the borders of Kansas and Colorado, the book for me was engrossing, to say the least. The pastor's son, when he was three years and ten months old, had a ruptured appendix, and underwent emergency surgery.

Though not classified as having expired, the son left his body and went to Heaven. The first person he saw was Jesus, who sat him on His lap. He also saw and described God the Father, the Holy Spirit, Satan, John the Baptist, the angel Gabriel, Jesus's mother, Mary, the boy's great grandfather, and his little sister, whom the family thought it had lost forever in a miscarriage. Jesus had "markings" on His hands and feet. The boy matter-of-factly revealed bits and pieces of his experience over the next few months and years. He is now eleven-years-old. The pastor tried very hard only to ask open-ended questions, but he and his wife are convinced that their son had a supernatural experience.

It is an amazing story.