Try to imagine a father’s surprise when his son describes sitting on Jesus’ lap. His name is Todd Burpo and his experiences are described in his book “Heaven is for Real.”
Mr. Burpo is a Protestant minister who lives with his wife Sonja and their two children in a tiny town in Nebraska. When the story begins their daughter Cassie is nine and their son Colton is four.We offer the best ventilationsystem,
The family is setting out on a trip to visit relatives in Sioux Falls, South Dakota for a Fourth of July holiday. It is the first time they have left Imperial since the previous March when their trip came close to ending in tragedy. As they drove through the city of North Platte, Todd jokingly told his son, “If we turn here, we can go back to the hospital.” Colton giggled and said, “No, Daddy, send Cassie.” She refused and Sonja asked Colton if he remembered the hospital. He replied, “Yes, Mommy, I remember. That’s where the angels sang to me.”
Todd turned into an Arby’s lot. He and Sonja exchanged puzzled looks while thinking of many questions to ask their son. Todd began with, “Colton, you said that angels sang to you while you were at the hospital?” He nodded his head. “What did they sing to you?” “Well, they sang ‘Jesus Loves Me’ and Joshua Fought the Battle of Jericho’.Buy a chickencoop direct & save.” I asked them to sing ‘We Will, We Will Rock You’, but they wouldn’t sing that. After a few more question about the angels, the little boy grew serious. “Dad, Jesus had the angels sing to me because I was so scared. They made me feel better.Hobby Silicone for mold making moldmaking ,” Todd looked at Sonja whose mouth was open then asked, “You mean Jesus was there?” “Yeah, Jesus was there, I was sitting on his lap.”
The parents had little time to absorb that shocking declaration when their son went on to say that he saw Daddy praying and Mommy talking on the phone. Since he was unconscious on the operating table, how could he have known exactly what they were doing?
They had not shared that information with anyone. Colton went on to say that he had gone out of his body and was looking down on the table while the doctor worked on him. Sonja’s eyes got big and Todd kept saying to himself over and over, ‘Could this be real?’
The previous year had proved extremely trying for the family even before the near-tragedy. The couple played in a coed softball league and was in the season’s final game when Todd broke his leg in two places sliding into base.
His recovery time made working at his second job impossible. To augment his pastor’s salary he had a garage door installation business. With his huge cast he could not climb the necessary steps to complete the job. Then he developed painful kidney stones which required treatment. As if that weren’t enough, a lump in his chest was diagnosed as cancer and had to be removed. All these expenses soon went way beyond his and his wife’s combined income and they were in debt.
When Todd’s cast was off, Sonja urged him to go to a church meeting in Greeley, Colorado. While he was there, Colton came down with what the doctor said was a virus going around. He got better so Sonja joined Todd with the children. The boy got terribly sick and the doctor seemed unable to help him so they took him to the hospital in North Platte. The surgeon said his appendix had ruptured and did not give them much hope. They called their church family to pray for their son and nervously waited for the operation to be over. There were complications but Colton did recover.
By the time of the family’s Fourth of July trip, Colton began mentioning events that happened during his surgery.Omega Plastics are a leading rapid tooling and plasticinjectionmould company based in the UK, His parents were very careful not to put words in his mouth but to wait for his description of his ‘trip to heaven.’ They were truly amazed at his reports.
One detail was the boy’s rejection of all the pictures of Jesus that were shown to him. “That’s not him” he said each time until he was shown the portrait painted by the 12-year-old prodigy Akiane Kramarik. His response amazed his parents when he said, “That is Jesus”.
I don’t see how anyone could doubt this precious child. The quote “In him there is no guile” directly applies. But I recommend this charming story whatever your beliefs.
Mr. Burpo is a Protestant minister who lives with his wife Sonja and their two children in a tiny town in Nebraska. When the story begins their daughter Cassie is nine and their son Colton is four.We offer the best ventilationsystem,
The family is setting out on a trip to visit relatives in Sioux Falls, South Dakota for a Fourth of July holiday. It is the first time they have left Imperial since the previous March when their trip came close to ending in tragedy. As they drove through the city of North Platte, Todd jokingly told his son, “If we turn here, we can go back to the hospital.” Colton giggled and said, “No, Daddy, send Cassie.” She refused and Sonja asked Colton if he remembered the hospital. He replied, “Yes, Mommy, I remember. That’s where the angels sang to me.”
Todd turned into an Arby’s lot. He and Sonja exchanged puzzled looks while thinking of many questions to ask their son. Todd began with, “Colton, you said that angels sang to you while you were at the hospital?” He nodded his head. “What did they sing to you?” “Well, they sang ‘Jesus Loves Me’ and Joshua Fought the Battle of Jericho’.Buy a chickencoop direct & save.” I asked them to sing ‘We Will, We Will Rock You’, but they wouldn’t sing that. After a few more question about the angels, the little boy grew serious. “Dad, Jesus had the angels sing to me because I was so scared. They made me feel better.Hobby Silicone for mold making moldmaking ,” Todd looked at Sonja whose mouth was open then asked, “You mean Jesus was there?” “Yeah, Jesus was there, I was sitting on his lap.”
The parents had little time to absorb that shocking declaration when their son went on to say that he saw Daddy praying and Mommy talking on the phone. Since he was unconscious on the operating table, how could he have known exactly what they were doing?
They had not shared that information with anyone. Colton went on to say that he had gone out of his body and was looking down on the table while the doctor worked on him. Sonja’s eyes got big and Todd kept saying to himself over and over, ‘Could this be real?’
The previous year had proved extremely trying for the family even before the near-tragedy. The couple played in a coed softball league and was in the season’s final game when Todd broke his leg in two places sliding into base.
His recovery time made working at his second job impossible. To augment his pastor’s salary he had a garage door installation business. With his huge cast he could not climb the necessary steps to complete the job. Then he developed painful kidney stones which required treatment. As if that weren’t enough, a lump in his chest was diagnosed as cancer and had to be removed. All these expenses soon went way beyond his and his wife’s combined income and they were in debt.
When Todd’s cast was off, Sonja urged him to go to a church meeting in Greeley, Colorado. While he was there, Colton came down with what the doctor said was a virus going around. He got better so Sonja joined Todd with the children. The boy got terribly sick and the doctor seemed unable to help him so they took him to the hospital in North Platte. The surgeon said his appendix had ruptured and did not give them much hope. They called their church family to pray for their son and nervously waited for the operation to be over. There were complications but Colton did recover.
By the time of the family’s Fourth of July trip, Colton began mentioning events that happened during his surgery.Omega Plastics are a leading rapid tooling and plasticinjectionmould company based in the UK, His parents were very careful not to put words in his mouth but to wait for his description of his ‘trip to heaven.’ They were truly amazed at his reports.
One detail was the boy’s rejection of all the pictures of Jesus that were shown to him. “That’s not him” he said each time until he was shown the portrait painted by the 12-year-old prodigy Akiane Kramarik. His response amazed his parents when he said, “That is Jesus”.
I don’t see how anyone could doubt this precious child. The quote “In him there is no guile” directly applies. But I recommend this charming story whatever your beliefs.
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