Posted on 03/11/2011 10:08:14 AM PST by Dr. Scarpetta
Just two months shy of his fourth birthday, Colton Burpo, the son of an evangelical pastor in Imperial, Neb., was rushed into emergency surgery with a burst appendix.
He woke up with an astonishing story: He had died and gone to heaven, where he met his great-grandfather; the biblical figure Samson; John the Baptist; and Jesus, who had eyes that “were just sort of a sea-blue and they seemed to sparkle,” Colton, now 11 years old, recalled.
Colton's father, Todd, has turned the boy’s experience into a 163-page book, “Heaven Is for Real,” which has become a sleeper paperback hit of the winter, dominating best-seller lists and selling hundreds of thousands of copies.
Thomas Nelson, the book’s publisher, said it had broken company sales records.
The publisher, based in Nashville, began with an initial print run of 40,000 copies.
Since the book came out in November, it has gone back to press 22 times, with more than 1.5 million copies in print.
On the New York Times best-seller list for paperback nonfiction last Sunday, “Heaven Is for Real” was NO. 1.
The book remains in the top spot this coming Sunday.
Colton told his parents that he had met his younger sister in heaven, describing her as a dark-haired girl who resembled his older sister, Cassie.
When the Burpos questioned him, he asked his mother, “You had a baby die in your tummy, didn’t you?”
While his wife had suffered a miscarriage years before, Mr. Burpo said, they had not told Colton about it.
“There’s just no way he could have known,” Mr. Burpo said.
The Burpos said that Colton painstakingly described images that he said he saw in heaven — like the bloody wounds on Jesus’ palms — that he had not been shown before.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
I know what you’re going through.
There is a CD of ‘Heaven is for Real.’ I’ve been buying my 89 yr old mother books on CD. She has a progressive disease, is practically paralyzed, and really can’t read anymore.
Best regards...
Unfortunately, my mom sees better than she hears...so the audio disk probably won't help.
I am going to try again tomorrow to get her to read the Kindle in large print.
Prayers for you and yours..and much love! Thx again for the original posting of "Heaven is for Real"...I have recommended it to friends in the same place.
See you up There!
Lovely words....
See you up There!
I think the Doctor’s name you’re talking about is: Maurice Rawlings M.D. he wrote “Beyond Death’s Door” and “To Hell and Back”
Thanks! I’ll check it out.
Thanks so much for the info about the Kindle for PC
SonOfDarkSkies...I downloaded it & got to read the book.
It was a wonderful, uplifting, read. Thanks again. God Bless
Glad you like it!
That’ll preach
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