Well, I have never met anyone of these people in real life; only seen them on a talk show or saw a movie about it.
So, is it real? Did they really see the light? Really see/feel Heaven?
I visited a friend in the hospital a couple of weeks ago. I don't know him all that well, just really through facebook, and he knows a lot of my friends. He has been sick for over a year, and that previous night he was sent to the ER by his doctor. His birthday was the following day so I decided to surprise him with a short visit.
It was really tough on me, I have to admit, because even though it has been 4 years since my Mom passed, hospitals touch me very deeply and emotionally because it reminds me of all her suffering.
As I walk in to his room, we said our hellos and he's laying in his hospital bed as a nurse is trying to find a vein in his arm to re-hook his IV. Right away somehow it came up that I was nervous because of my Mom. He asked me how she was doing.
You see, we REALLY don't know each other that well, because otherwise he would have known she passed away already.
I told him she passed 4 years ago. Without skipping a beat he says with a beautiful, calming smile, "I'm sorry, at least you will see her again in Heaven."
I looked at this man I hardly know telling me this and I thought, "um okay."
He then shared that almost about a year ago he was flat-lined after a routine gall bladder procedure and he died on the table. But the doctors and nurses revived him.
He went on to share with me that he had seen his parents. And that he is no longer scared of death.
I asked all sorts of questions!
Were you upset they brought you back after seeing them? Yes, very.
Is there really a light? Yes.
So you aren't afraid of death now? No, I will be at peace with my family. And so will you be.
I started to bawl. Like a little girl. Like the little girl in this 45 year olds' body that missed her Mom more than life itself still 4 years later of her passing.
I told him, you never know what paths were meant to cross and I knew at that moment that I was not meant to see my friend in the hospital b/c it was his birthday, but because I was to hear that I will see my Mom again.
Even as I type this I'm crying.
The magnitude of that 5 minute exchange of my life will last me a lifetime. I actually KNOW someone who saw the light. And yes it's peaceful. And yes you feel comfort and yes you see your loved ones again.
He was not afraid at all as he laid there in bed telling me this story. His eyes were FULL of happiness and knowledge of the day he would be back with his parents.
It was on the one the most amazing things I have ever been through in my life.
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