Today I am writing about a lady who felt she could not tell anyone except her husband about her experience in heaven.
She was in her sixties and got very sick. She lives with her husband in a Michigan on a horse farm. She was brought up as a Christian but says she actually really became one at the age of 19 years old. She was so humbled by this experience that she did not feel as if she could talk about it.
Fourteen years ago, while she slept in the middle of the night, Carol says she was transported to the “edge” of heaven. She had been suffering with a life-threatening gastrointestinal disease that led to a hospitalization immediately before her experience.
Fire, lightning, thunder and water swirled around her as she landed on the floor of Paradise with a “whoosh.” “It was scary and exhilarating all at the same time,” she recounts. “I instantly knew I was in heaven.
She says suddenly she had this incredible peace of emotions, just as we are told in the bible as there will be no more hunger or tears or pains in heaven.
Still the point is we have to live here on earth the way we are expected to have this experience.
To her left stood and angel like a soldier and he did not look as if he had wings, more like someone having to watch over something.
She heard water like a river that she called Rushing River, all this happened as she was standing on a path of pure gold like you have never seen and it was sort of moving like waves. The sound she heard was actually not water it was The Lord coming her way.
She says he was so beautiful and his eyes looked into her soul and she had no doubt that he was the Lord of Lords and King of Kings. He was also wearing a soft white linen gown and all he did was look at her.
She loves butterflies and saw the most beautiful blue butterflies like ones she had never seen before. There were the most beautiful flowers.
She also saw the most beautiful shine like no sunset on earth that you can imagine with lots of colours. Then just as fast as she was taken to heaven she was back in her bed. She says she lay there in a fetal position, and could not believe what had happened to her. It took her a few days before she could tell her husband about her experience. But it took her more than six months to tell the rest of her relations.
The next spring she visited a show that is held every year for butterfly lovers and to her amazement there were the same blue butterflies that she had seen in heaven.
Many years later she heard about “Heaven is for real” about a four year old boy called Colton Burpo who had a similar experience as she had and came back to tell his family about God.
This child was asked what does he look like and it was very difficult for him to explain.
His parents heard about an artist who had the same experience and she made a painting of God from memory. When his parents showed him the picture he said, that is him that is what he looks like.
A friend told her that their book shop had a copy of the picture and she could not wait to see it.
The artist Akiane Kramarik was only 8 years old when she painted this wonderful painting of the Lord of Lords
Here is a video on her paintings where there were more than 200 paintings that is visions that is sent to her.
To me there can be no brighter idea and light than this painting and what we read here about our Father and Lord.