THOSE DYING SAID TO ENCOUNTER ROOM FULL OF PARENTS, SPOUSES, CHILDREN, IN-LAWS, FRIENDS

Many years ago my mother was severely burned and not expected to live. As she lay dying she saw heaven opened and began to float up toward JESUS! However, he did NOT have his arms out to greet her. He said to her..”You have three little babies”. Then she began to float back down.

She survived her burns and lived another forty two years before dying of renal failure. As she lay dying again she was talking to someone in the room. My sister asked who she was talking to and she said “Those men in black there. One is standing and one is sitting in the chair there”. There was no one else in the room but my sister and mom. She died a few days later.

Scared the tar out of my sister!

My mom never told us about her first experience till we were middle aged.

Watching someone die can be a mystical thing. My FIL was acting out riding in his truck and going fishing. My MIL waited until all the family had visited and died very peacefully after counting each person she wanted in the room.

Short answer: "Yes"

I am reminded of one of my favorite baseball jokes...
Stan Kowalski and Mel Ott were life long, old friends. They had played professional baseball for many years. Loved the sport, and had long successful careers. Now retired and very elderly, they spent leisurely afternoons together on the front porch of their nursing home, talking of their beloved baseball.
One afternoon, Stan turned to Mel and asked, "Do you supposed there's baseball in Heaven?" Mel thought for a moment, and said "Tell you what...first one to die and get there promises to come back and tell the other what he's found. Deal?"
Several months later, Stan passes away peacefully in his sleep. A few nights after that, he returns to visit Mel and tells him what he's found. Standing at the foot of Mel's bed, he shouts "Mel! Wake up! I've got good news and bad news!"
Mel sits bolt upright in his bed and says, "Well? First, what's the good news?" Stan says "Yes! There's baseball! We play every day. All the greats are hear. We got Mantel, and Ruth, DiMaggio...they're all here! Games never get rained out, and the Umps are all blind!"
Mel says, "That's fantastic! Now...what's the bad news?" Stan responds "You're pitching tomorrow."

We're all "pitching tomorrow," but it doesn't have to be "bad news." Heaven will not disappoint. It can't. Batter up.

I had someone relate his experience, He wasn’t feeling well and had a massive heart attack in front of the doctor at the entrance of the hospital. He stated he worked hard all his life and asked the doctor not to give up on him, and the doctor and his team went longer than usual in trying to resucitate him and later the doctor told him he could not explain why he lived. Part of his story is that he saw a light at the end of a tunnel and watched it “rain cats and dogs” of people going downward to hell and a few going up to heaven.

I hope and pray that more people will go to heaven. I am trying to work on a very Liberal former Catholic now an aethist in his 70’s. It is an uphill battle. God is very forgiving, but individuals need to accept and Love God.

Aw, thank you, mlizzy. I guess I’m having a day where I’m very conscious of my weaknesses!

I love that quote so much! I’m going to try to make it my tagline, if you don’t mind. It’s so true!

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