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Heaven Is for Real will forever change the way you think of eternity, offering the chance to see and believe like a child. 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.” He describes Jesus, the angels, how “really, really big” God is, and how much God loves us. With disarming innocence and the plainspoken boldness of a child, Colton tells of meeting long-departed family members. 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. 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. 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.Ĭolton, 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. “When Colton Burpo made it through an emergency appendectomy, his family was overjoyed at his miraculous survival. Heaven Is For Real: A Little Boy’s Astounding Story of His Trip to Heaven and Back by Todd Burpo, Lynn Vincent Synopsis:
