"A beautifully written glimpse into heaven that will encourage
those who doubt and thrill those who believe."
-Ron Hall, coauthor of Same Kind of Different as Me
"Do you remember the hospital, Colton?" Sonja said. "Yes,
mommy, I remember," he said. "That''s where the angels sang to
me."
When Colton Burpo made it through an emergency appendectomy, his
family was overjoyed at his miraculous survival. What they
weren''t expecting, though, was the story that emerged in the
months that followed-a story as beautiful as it was
extraordinary, detailing their little boy''s trip to heaven and
back.
Colton, not yet four years old, told his parents he left his
body during the surgery-and authenticated that claim by
describing exactly what his parents were doing in another part
of the hospital while he was being operated on. He talked
of visiting heaven and relayed stories told to him by people
he met there whom he had never met in life, sharing events
that happened even before he was born. He also astonished his
parents with descriptions and obscure details about heaven
that matched the Bible exactly, though he had not yet learned
to read.
With disarming innocence and the plainspoken boldness of a
child, Colton tells of meeting long-departed family members. He
describes Jesus, the angels, how "really, really big" God is,
and how much God loves us. Retold by his father, but using
Colton''s uniquely simple words, Heaven Is for Real
offers a glimpse of the world that awaits us, where as
Colton says, "Nobody is old and nobody wears glasses."
Heaven Is for Real will forever change the way you
think of eternity, offering the chance to see, and believe,
like a child.
