heaven and THE AFTERLIFE:

INTRODUCTION: I’VE BEEN BLESSED

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But my God shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus. Now unto God and our Father be glory for ever and ever. Amen.

~ Philippians 4:19-20

Many times as I sat down at my keyboard to work on this book, I have been encouraged by Holy Spirit to count my blessings.

Has anyone reminded you to count your blessings? If so, when you examine the numerous ways you’ve been blessed and begin to list the numerous blessings in your life, do you feel eternally grateful?

It’s part of our humanity that we tend to lose sight of those blessings while dealing with our day-to-day cares. Yet when we stop to think about how many good things are steadfast in our life, outside of the setbacks, gratitude washes over us.

I believe I was encouraged to look at my blessings as a means for me to overcome my obstacles. Healing from my physical ailments has been time consuming and difficult.

Yet, when I look at my blessings …

Like you, I have been blessed in a multitude of ways. Recently I have been blessed even more so. A large part of that blessing was my being allowed to remain alive and still walking God’s green Earth. An even bigger blessing was the amount of time I was granted to spend in Near-Heaven, which is a setting running immediately beside Heaven, and the glimpses I was permitted of Heaven itself. Not everyone has such amazing opportunities, and even fewer have the chance to tell about it afterward.

But the largest blessing of all was having been given the opportunity to directly communicate with Jesus and seeing our Heavenly Father.

If you were in any doubt, the wonderful news is Heaven exists. God exists. Jesus exists. I can say this with absolute authority because of what I saw, witnessed and experienced that I will detail throughout this book.

I want to put your mind at ease on the worries, issues and questions confronting people today.

Do you worry about whether there is life after death?

Do you lose sleep at night over cares about your physical or mental health?

Are you concerned about the health and wellbeing of someone you love?

Do you wonder whether Jesus’s promise of eternal life is in fact true?

The best way I can reassure you on these common worries is to have you walk through my experiences with me and to share my firm, fact-based, beliefs with you.

Our Heavenly Father and Jesus are incredibly good, caring and loving. They are deserving. I am not. Nor am I deserving of special favors, yet They have been exceedingly generous to me. While I was in medically-induced and ill-health-induced comas, I was both overwhelmed and grateful to learn there had been over 1,000 prayers said for my recovery. Jesus said this as if it were a rare event, and although They did not explicitly say so, I formed the impression that it was because of the magnitude of the number of prayers that I was given a choice as to whether to remain earthbound or not.

At that time, I was in and out of consciousness. Occasionally my spirit would be aware of my being in an emergency room, and that my husband and son were at times with me, but sometimes my spirit seemed to depart from my body and I would watch events from the corner of the room. At other times I was in a place, neither Heaven nor Earth, where I communicated with God and Jesus. It sort of resembled being in a gray cloud.

I wasn’t surprised to be talking with Jesus, or that our Heavenly Father was with us as well, although I didn’t see Him. I merely heard Him.

Whenever I have encountered Jesus, a feeling of complete love and calm comes over me like a lovingly made and comforting quilt, soothing my soul with peace and everlasting love.

During this time I wasn’t aware of any other heavenly creatures, just the two of them. And our conversations were similar to communications with Holy Spirit. I guess you would call them telepathic, rather than verbal, but I heard their words spoken clearly in my head. And I replied in the same manner.

At these times I didn’t hear what was going on around my physical body. It was as if my psyche had left for a flight in the clouds.

However, I was aware of my physical body at times, which felt jittery as medical professionals worked on me. Sometimes I would gasp for breath, and at other times I was completely unaware of my body, as if it didn’t exist at all.

What’s amazing and a huge blessing during this time when my body was so ill is that God and Jesus permitted me to make the choice of whether I should leave or stay on this earthly plane—although, after my being able to hear some of the beautiful prayers being said for me, if They had been in any doubt, They likely had a very good idea of what my decision would be. Their offering me this choice was possibly triggered by the number of prayers said for me.

The fact I had a choice was possibly a matter of free will. Perhaps I was given the choice of staying or going simply because of free will. It’s my belief that one of the reasons why prayer can be tremendously powerful is because the act of our praying informs God that we agree to his working in our lives and our affairs. Without that consent, our Heavenly Father may be unable to help us.

He needs to be specifically invited in.

And so in this case, while I believe the number of prayers had something to do with allowing me to make a choice, it certainly could be that everyone who is on the verge of passing over may in fact be given this decision to make for themselves. I do not know.

For me the choice was difficult. It was nearly impossible to turn away from the beauty and joyousness and complete love that I found in Their presence. As someone who has been allowed to remain in my physical body for a while longer and to start down the difficult road to my physical and mental recovery, I’m eternally grateful.

This book is part of my recovery—the spiritual part. I consider it as important as the cardiac rehabilitation in which I participated.

I hope that you, by learning about some of my experiences, will feel that your spirit is as blessed and restored as mine.

May God Bless You.

Kathy Carmichael

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