Heaven is for Real
A Little Boy’s Astounding Story of His Trip to Heaven and Back
About the book
Todd Burpo, a Methodist pastor from rural Nebraska, tells with Lynn Vincent the story of his young son Colton, who underwent emergency surgery for appendicitis in 2002. Months later, Colton began describing a visit to heaven during the operation: watching the doctor at work and his father praying in the waiting room, sitting in the lap of Jesus, and meeting a great-grandfather who had died three decades before his birth. He also spoke of a sister lost to miscarriage whom no one had mentioned to him. The father narrates, often in Colton's own words. A Christian best seller from 2010, the book had sold more than 10 million copies by 2014 and was made into a feature film.
Theresa Evanoff, founder of Gift-it-Forward, said she read it just after her mother died and that it moved her deeply and gave her a strange comfort that her mother was in a better place.
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Theresa Evanoff (Founder/Gift-it-Forward)
I’ve been an avid reader all my life, but one book that stands out on a very personal level is “Heaven is Real”, by Lynn Vincent and Todd Burpo. While the story and writing style might not be Pulitzer material, I read this right after my mother passed away and it really moved me. It gave me a strange sense of comfort that she is in a better place, and that she would be looking down on me and my children in the future (I had also just learned I was pregnant not long before that).
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