Did I Experience ???HEAVEN???MY Story
In 1982, I had Kidney surgery....they say it is the most dangerous surgery you can have...I guess the blood pressure or whatever, but I had no choice...
I had problems develop a couple of years before the surgery....I was the 3rd person in the US to have it and save the Kidney..generally they remove it..as it had already started to balloon out...but a new surgeon had arrived where we lived and he had been trained to save the Kidney....So he did....That day was..........DECEMBER 23, 1982...
After surgery, I spent the first few days in ICU and then was transported to my room....on about the 3rd day....now that I write the # 3 I think of my #3 in the sky.
I remember being put in my bed....checked by the nurses and then went to sleep...
A few hours later this is what happened:
I found myself somewhere, a larger inside area...on one side there was a platform like with several women standing, talking, laughing...All so relaxed and happy looking.. ...I realize that one of the women is one of my older cousins....They turn and look at me....all smiling....
In the other side of the room, I hear children playing....happy...laughing...full of joy, but in my thinking they are all young....but so so happy.
In a distance I hear what sounds like two cars hitting...A huge wreck of two cars as they hit so hard....I turn to the women and they continue to talk and laugh..I say to my cousin "Shouldn't someone go check on the wreck?" My cousin just smiles and laughs and says to me "Oh, no no one get hurts here"...So I just stood there....Then I realize how very very tired I am.....and I wonder where I can rest.
I turn and there behind me is Two of the most Large Wooden Doors...I think, they are so Big and Heavy looking, how can I get them open...The next thing, I am walking through the doors...There were so light to the touch.....
I walk into this huge huge empty room....almost empty....The entire room is made of Crystal....Crystal Walls,,,,Crystal Floors....the most beautiful room I had ever seem....and in the middle of the room stands a:
Crystal Baby Grand Piano and Crystal Stool....I look around me in amazement but I am still so tired...so I think....I can go lay down beside the Piano and rest....so I do.
As I lay there, I look up....over me is a Crystal Dome....Going so high up that there was no ending....I lay there looking up into the Crystal Dome, when I hear a voice.
The voice said to me...."Do you want to stay?" Or Do You Want to Return" At first I wanted to stay....Again the voice asked me again the same questions...I am so tired....that I just want to rest....but I felt I should answer...So as I looked up into the Crystal Dome......I tell the voice....
"I have to go back, I have to take care of my children"..Then the voice says to me,
"If you want to go back, you have to pick up the crystal bar and throw it in the dome....I am thinking to myself....I have to go back, I have to take care of my children...but I am so tired there is No Way I can throw anything....Finally, I
Pick up the Crystal Bar and I throw it up into the dome....as soon as I did...
I immediately felt myself go back into my body in the hospital room...It was like a
thump as I felt myself .....at that moment I opened my eyes...It was 2:15a.m.
At 4:30a.m. I woke up chocking....I try and finally rang the nurse call button...I am so weak, I can not get myself to stop from chocking....I say to myself....I have died once tonight, I do not want to die again...About that time the nurse comes in...
For years, I have shared this with a few people...a few on here....I shared it at the hospital a few days before Ken died.....Several of us had shared an experience of what they felt was something like Heaven....
After this happened to me, I wondered, did I really die,,,did I really experience a part of Heaven....but then the thought would come to me about being taught about Heaven and that the streets are of Gold....But after this experience, I feared no death.....and I remembered every detail of it....as I have shared...but what kept coming to me when I would think of it was that I had been taught in church that Heaven had streets of Gold, so for many years I never took the time to look it up in the Bible for myself.....a few years ago I did and this is what I read not exact words but it did seem to answer my question.....The Bible says of Heaven, Streets of Gold as as transparent Glass....Truthfully, when I read it, I could not believe it...
Streets of Gold, as Crystal...or as Transparent Glass...I found this in Rev. 21...
I still wonder, I still question "Did I experience a bit of Heaven?" Since 1982, I have wondered....I think of this often....As far as I know I was not on any medicine from the surgery as it had been three days since the surgery....I do know that it was an amazing thing to happen....
I have always heard that if you have something like this happen,,,you never ever forget....You never fear death...I don't know that I fear death...I fear pain that I might experience ....but not death....
Just thought I would share this with you...and wonder what is your thought on this....?
Sandi
I had problems develop a couple of years before the surgery....I was the 3rd person in the US to have it and save the Kidney..generally they remove it..as it had already started to balloon out...but a new surgeon had arrived where we lived and he had been trained to save the Kidney....So he did....That day was..........DECEMBER 23, 1982...
After surgery, I spent the first few days in ICU and then was transported to my room....on about the 3rd day....now that I write the # 3 I think of my #3 in the sky.
I remember being put in my bed....checked by the nurses and then went to sleep...
A few hours later this is what happened:
I found myself somewhere, a larger inside area...on one side there was a platform like with several women standing, talking, laughing...All so relaxed and happy looking.. ...I realize that one of the women is one of my older cousins....They turn and look at me....all smiling....
In the other side of the room, I hear children playing....happy...laughing...full of joy, but in my thinking they are all young....but so so happy.
In a distance I hear what sounds like two cars hitting...A huge wreck of two cars as they hit so hard....I turn to the women and they continue to talk and laugh..I say to my cousin "Shouldn't someone go check on the wreck?" My cousin just smiles and laughs and says to me "Oh, no no one get hurts here"...So I just stood there....Then I realize how very very tired I am.....and I wonder where I can rest.
I turn and there behind me is Two of the most Large Wooden Doors...I think, they are so Big and Heavy looking, how can I get them open...The next thing, I am walking through the doors...There were so light to the touch.....
I walk into this huge huge empty room....almost empty....The entire room is made of Crystal....Crystal Walls,,,,Crystal Floors....the most beautiful room I had ever seem....and in the middle of the room stands a:
Crystal Baby Grand Piano and Crystal Stool....I look around me in amazement but I am still so tired...so I think....I can go lay down beside the Piano and rest....so I do.
As I lay there, I look up....over me is a Crystal Dome....Going so high up that there was no ending....I lay there looking up into the Crystal Dome, when I hear a voice.
The voice said to me...."Do you want to stay?" Or Do You Want to Return" At first I wanted to stay....Again the voice asked me again the same questions...I am so tired....that I just want to rest....but I felt I should answer...So as I looked up into the Crystal Dome......I tell the voice....
"I have to go back, I have to take care of my children"..Then the voice says to me,
"If you want to go back, you have to pick up the crystal bar and throw it in the dome....I am thinking to myself....I have to go back, I have to take care of my children...but I am so tired there is No Way I can throw anything....Finally, I
Pick up the Crystal Bar and I throw it up into the dome....as soon as I did...
I immediately felt myself go back into my body in the hospital room...It was like a
thump as I felt myself .....at that moment I opened my eyes...It was 2:15a.m.
At 4:30a.m. I woke up chocking....I try and finally rang the nurse call button...I am so weak, I can not get myself to stop from chocking....I say to myself....I have died once tonight, I do not want to die again...About that time the nurse comes in...
For years, I have shared this with a few people...a few on here....I shared it at the hospital a few days before Ken died.....Several of us had shared an experience of what they felt was something like Heaven....
After this happened to me, I wondered, did I really die,,,did I really experience a part of Heaven....but then the thought would come to me about being taught about Heaven and that the streets are of Gold....But after this experience, I feared no death.....and I remembered every detail of it....as I have shared...but what kept coming to me when I would think of it was that I had been taught in church that Heaven had streets of Gold, so for many years I never took the time to look it up in the Bible for myself.....a few years ago I did and this is what I read not exact words but it did seem to answer my question.....The Bible says of Heaven, Streets of Gold as as transparent Glass....Truthfully, when I read it, I could not believe it...
Streets of Gold, as Crystal...or as Transparent Glass...I found this in Rev. 21...
I still wonder, I still question "Did I experience a bit of Heaven?" Since 1982, I have wondered....I think of this often....As far as I know I was not on any medicine from the surgery as it had been three days since the surgery....I do know that it was an amazing thing to happen....
I have always heard that if you have something like this happen,,,you never ever forget....You never fear death...I don't know that I fear death...I fear pain that I might experience ....but not death....
Just thought I would share this with you...and wonder what is your thought on this....?
Sandi
Replies
Sandi:
MY THOUGHTS: This is amazing - from 1982 and you still remember every detail!! Don\'t know if it was a NDE or dream, but it sounds sooooo real - soooo comforting and peaceful (smile). Thanks for sharing your wonderful experience.
Take care and be gentle with yourself,
Marcia (Marcus\' mom)
I accept this as an NDE personally. I also believe that \"Heaven\" is both a uniquely individual \"place\" and a state of mind, spiritual experience. The first thing I thought of as you described the crystal piano was how you do in fact play piano. I heard a preacher once describe his NDE and he went to a \"room\" full of exotic flowers, the most beautiful he\'d ever seen. On earth as a human he was a backyard gardener with a passion for exotic flowers. HIS heaven was filled with flowers. Yours included a crystal grand piano! I believe we each have our own unique heavens and yet at the same time our heavens intertwine with each other and we can experience all the spiritual heavens. I personally do not believe in literal streets of gold...though this may be a personal heaven for someone who had to walk a dirt and rocky road for miles each day carrying heavy loads when they were human??...but basically I believe this description is intended to create an idea of perfection and beauty. I also don\'t believe in literal \"mansions\"...this too, TO ME, is to give an impression of grandure and extreme comfort. I think Kala\'s heaven must have a beautiful beach as a part of it, lots of friends, and lots of little kids running around...oh, and music, definitely music....OH, and a shopping mall!!! I often wonder what my personal heaven will be like...I\'m hoping for mountains, streams, and lots of wildlife...and of course my Brice and my Kala!!
All in all, I\'d say, YES...you did experience heaven!
Teri, I have always heard that our Heaven is what we enjoy on earth....Me too, I hope for blue waters....beach and sand....but also wish for the mountain and streams...but what ever it is...I DON\'T THINK WE WILL BE DISAPPOINTED...
I thought of that too about that I play the paino...but had never played a baby grand unit I started playing at the church I am now...It is just so real to me as I can still hear the children laughing and sounds of playing....One thing for sure everyone there was so happy....Although it will been so many years, it is so vivid in my mind...Love thanks for all who commented...Sandi
Sandi, in the months before my husband passed he had two (2) distinct NDE that he relayed to me and if you had known my husband you would appreciate how foreign that experience would be for him to relate. He was a believer - but very private in his thoughts about Heaven and such - but he knew that he was there - no doubt in his mind. He said GOD sent him back because he had \"work\" to be done. The last one was about 6 weeks before he passed. I have remembered his words although it has now been four (4) years ago. For whatever reason - I believe it can happen. What a great experience! Love Suzzanne