On the Home Front

by Marlo Benning
marlo@inhnews.com

I’ve always been a reader of books. To snuggle up on the couch with a real page turner and a cup of joe is an ultimate pleasure for me. If you love it, too, you know exactly what I’m talking about.
I read a book recently that I literally didn’t want to put down. I guess this has happened before to an extent, but not quite like this. I was entranced as to the words in front of me, all which came into being because a wee little boy of three years old relayed an experience to his parents. His dad told his awesome story in print.
The book is titled Heaven is for Real—the boy named it this because that is what he wants others to know. It tells of this little guy who has surgery due to a life-threatening rupture of his appendix. Although the surgery went well according to medical records and reports of the medical team, he begins to tell his parents a few months later that he was in heaven during that surgery. He tells of things that he could never have known, which makes the book so intriguing.
He says how “Jesus has markers”—red ones on his hands and feet, how everyone is young in heaven and how he met his sister there and misses her (a sister he didn’t know of that had died before birth). These are just a few of the tales he innocently slips into every day conversations with his family. His dad who is a pastor is in awe over many of the words that spill out about his recollections.
As a Christian myself, I was also in awe. It solidifies my beliefs and I think that if a non-believer read this book, it could easily bring them to Christianity.
I know that there have been other books written on this very subject, but what struck me most is this young storyteller who had no idea of the magnitude of his words.

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