Fall into Reading Book Review #7

Have you read this book yet??

When I first saw this book last spring, I thought it was yet another book about the whole heaven hype.

But wow......this is an account from a pre-schooler's lips and eyes!!

I was drawn to the book because Claire's dance teacher, who is Catholic, loved it and says she now believes!!

And...I have a passion for pre-schoolers as I spent the bulk of my teaching career teaching children ages 2-6.  I LOVE that age......they are brutally honest, innocent, and inquisitive.

This book is gripping...and if you didn't believe in heaven before reading this, you will after completing it!

This book gives hope to people who have lost loved ones who knew the Lord.  It gives hope to parents who have had to suffer through miscarriages/spontaneous abortions.

Make no mistake:  people who have Jesus in their hearts will enter the kingdom of God (Heaven).  The little boy recounts what he saw and experienced in 3 minutes while on the operating table for a ruptured appendix.  He reports that only if we know Jesus will we  go to heaven.  He tells us that God sends down power to help his daddy preach!  (the Holy Spirit)...and it confirms what his dad does before every sermon:  he asks the Lord to give him the words, etc.  It is powerful reading!!

This book is very believable. The little boy's dad is a Wesleyan pastor and they live in Nebraska. Dad has written the story along with Lynn Vincent who wrote Same Kind of Different as Me among other books. They have 3 children here on earth and Colton (the little boy) met his sister who was the result of a miscarriage here on earth!!  And he didn't know his mommy had had a miscarriage!! He was too young at the time it happened for them to explain it all to him. His parents didn't know if she was a boy or girl so they didn't name her.  And this is what Colton reports to his parents. He also met a great grandfather who had died when his own daddy was a little boy!! And he reports that we aren't old in heaven nor do people wear glasses (yeah!!)  

He talks about the "Rainbow Colors" he sees....and he sees John the Baptist.  He sees the throne of God and describes Jesus as sitting at God's right hand.  He says the Holy Spirit is blue.  He says Gabriel the angel is sitting on God's left side.  He says he sat in Jesus' lap and that Jesus really loves the children.

Read this book!!  It is for everyone....I plan on buying both daughters a copy of this book for Christmas.

I highly recommend it and on a scale of 1-10 I rate this a 10.

I am now reading a book that is not on my original Fall into Reading Challenge.  It is called The Lake of Dreams by Kim Edwards who is the author of one of my all-time fave books, The Memory Keeper's Daughter.

How are YOU doing with your reading this autumn??  

What books are you enjoying??  I am still plodding my way through Faith in the Halls of Power and hope to finish by the end of Thanksgiving vacation!

HAPPY READING!!