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Wellllllllllll, finished it.

BTW, DR E, I don’t think you’ll have any explanation that remotely fits for the below.

Want to post a brief excerpt or two . . . FANTASTIC BOOK.

With an incredible painting type picture of Jesus done by another child of similar age . . . quite an artistic prodigy . . . growing up in an atheist family . . . never having heard about Christ or God or any such—that God began giving similar trips to Heaven . . .

Their website is here:

http://www.heavenisforreal.net/#page_21

Maybe I can put that bit in here . . .

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. . . our hosts had friends who had been at the church the evening of our talk and had heard the descriptioins of heaven Colton had shared . . . forwarded us an email about a report CNN had run . . . about a young Lithuanian American girl named Akiane Kramarik, who lived in Idaho.

. . . Akiane (pronounced AH-KEE-AHNA) had begun having “visions” of heaven at the age of four . . . Her descriptions of heaven sounded remarkably like Colton’s, . . .

. . . A self-taught artist who says her inspiration comes ‘from above.’ . . . and a profile view of a man who was clearly meant to be Christ . . .

. . .

The narrator went on to say that Akiane’s mother was an atheist and that the concept of God was never discussed in their home. The family did not watch television, and Akiane didn’t attend any kind of preschool. So as the little girl began to tell her stories of heaven, then depict them first in drawings, then paintings, her mother knew she couldn’t have heard these things from another person. Slowly, her mom began to accept that Akiane’s visions were real and that therefore, God must be real.

. . .

At that point, a close-up portrait of the face of Christ filled the screen. It was the same likeness I”d seen before, but this time with Jeus looking directly “into the camera,” so to speak.

‘He’s pure,’ Akiane was saying. ‘He’s very masculilne, really strong and big. And his eyes are just beautiful.’

. . .

‘and his eyes, ‘ Colton had said. ‘Oh, Dad, his eyes are so pretty!’

. . .

Still, of the literally dozens of portraits of Jesus we’d seen since 2003, Colton had still never seen one he thought was right.’

Well, I thought, may as well see what he thinks of Akiane’s attempt.

. . .

Colton bounded down the stairs and popped into the office.’ Yeah, Dad?’

‘Take a look at this,’ I said, nodding toward the computer monitor: ‘What’s wrong with this one?’

He turned to the screen and for a long moment said nothing.

‘Colton?’

But he just stood there, studying. I couldn’t read his expression.

‘What’s wrong with this one, Colton?’ I said again.

Utter silence.

I nudged him in the arm. ‘Colton?’

My seven-year-old turned to look at me and said, ‘Dad, that one’s right.’

Knowing how many [dozens] of pictures Colton had rejected, Sonja and I finally felt that in Akiane’s portrait, we’d seen the face of Jesus. Or at least a startling likeness.”

Here’s a link to the PRINCE OF PEACE PIC:

http://www.artakiane.com/gallery