Heaven is for Real : A Little Boy's Astounding Story of His Trip to Heaven and Back
body and legs six inches long, thick as pencils. But the best thing about Rosie from a kid’s point of view was that if you were ...
Cassie got in line behind a couple of other kids. Colton’s eyes never left Rosie as first a boy then a girl held the enormous sp ...
TWO PASTOR JOB In the next room, we found rows of aquariums and indoor “tide pools.” We wandered around the exhibits, taking in ...
Our third-base coach motioned frantically: “Slide! Slide!” Adrenaline pumping, I dropped to the ground and felt the red dirt swo ...
weeks. Meanwhile, the amount we had coming in was chopped in half. The pain of that went beyond money, though. I served as both ...
The surgeon, Dr. Timothy O’Holleran, performed a needle biopsy. The results that came back a few days later shocked me: hyperpla ...
above his master.”^1 Sure, I’d had a rough few months, but they were nothing compared with what a lot of people in the world wer ...
THREE COLTON TOUGHS IT OUT That next month, the cast came off. With the cancer scare and kidney stones behind us, I spent a coup ...
working its way around town. Through that night, our trip remained up in the air. Separately, in Greeley and Imperial, Sonja and ...
months. It was hard to believe that the broken leg, the kidney stones, the lost work, the financial stress, three surgeries, and ...
FOUR SMOKE SIGNALS Later that evening, with a swim under their belts, Cassie and Colton sat in a big round booth at the Old Chic ...
Gotta be that stomach flu, I thought. Great. That was how the evening began. It continued with Colton throwing up every thirty m ...
sleep. That left Sonja with nursing duties, which included an almost hourly trek back and forth to the bathroom with Colton. Cas ...
We spent Sunday night with the Harrises in Greeley. By morning, Cassie had completely recovered, but Colton had spent a second n ...
were doing something. In a short while, we’d have a diagnosis, probably a prescription or two, and Colton would be on the way to ...
FIVE SHADOW OF DEATH That was Monday, March 3. Nurses placed Colton in a room and inserted an IV. Two bags dangled from the top ...
of death. I recognized it instantly. As a pastor, you sometimes find yourself on a deathwatch. In a hospital. A nursing home. A ...
SIX NORTH PLATTE On Wednesday, we broke the news to the Imperial hospital staff that we were taking Colton to the Great Plains R ...
“But the doctor.. .” “I know. We shouldn’t have listened.” There wasn’t any finger-pointing, no blaming each other. But we were ...
and action. God, let us get there. Let us help our son. As a father, I felt I had blown it. But maybe there was still something ...
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