To Heaven and Back: A Doctor's Extraordinary Account of Her Death, Heaven, Angels, and Life Again: A True Story

To Heaven and Back: A Doctor's Extraordinary Account of Her Death, Heaven, Angels, and Life Again: A True Story

Mary C. Neal

Language: English

Pages: 240

ISBN: 0307731715

Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub


A kayak accident during a South American adventure takes one woman to heaven — where she experienced God’s peace, joy, and angels — and back to life again.
 
 
In 1999 in the Los Rios region of southern Chile, orthopedic surgeon, devoted wife, and loving mother Dr. Mary Neal drowned in a kayak accident. While cascading down a waterfall, her kayak became pinned at the bottom and she was immediately and completely submerged. Despite the rescue efforts of her companions, Mary was underwater for too long, and as a result, died.
 
To Heaven and Back is Mary’s remarkable story of her life’s spiritual journey and what happened as she moved from life to death to eternal life, and back again. Detailing her feelings and surroundings in heaven, her communication with angels, and her deep sense of sadness when she realized it wasn’t her time, Mary shares the captivating experience of her modern-day miracle.
 
Mary’s life has been forever changed by her newfound understanding of her purpose on earth, her awareness of God, her closer relationship with Jesus, and her personal spiritual journey suddenly enhanced by a first-hand experience in heaven.  To Heaven and Back will reacquaint you with the hope, wonder, and promise of heaven, while enriching you own faith and walk with God.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

total and absolute failure and hopelessness to one of success without any meaningful input from them. They have described it to me as a choreographed performance in which they were each just playing their roles. To this day, they continue to feel that ours is not just a good story. It wasn’t just one miracle; it was a constellation of miracles for which there is no possible explanation other than God’s intervention. As Chad later said, “Let’s not let life muddle what happened. We were all part of

farmer said, ‘Don’t thank me. Thank the Lord. He gave the sunshine and rain and fertility to the soil, and that’s why you have bread to eat.’ ” The rest of the Bible, other written material, the television, and even the faces of those people I love continued to be blurry for several days. Due to this continued blurriness, I wasn’t able to read anything other than these three Bible verses, couldn’t watch TV, and didn’t want to converse with anyone. All I did was read and re-read these three

ground. A hand reaches out and catches it. It never reaches the ground. The ball has obeyed the laws of nature, but the hand has intervened. If the hand were God’s, we would have witnessed divine intervention without a defiance of the laws of nature. I believe that God heard our heartfelt cry on that little road in Mexico and chose to intervene on our behalf. Although the answer was not what we expected, God gave us a specific answer to our specific prayer: He put rock under us. Over the

Since his death, I continue to cling to my daily creed (the one taped to the fridge), because it reflects the convictions and logical conclusions I already know to be true based on my past experiences. 1. I believe God’s promises are true: God promises not to leave us nor forsake us. God promises to open the door when we knock, and to always welcome us back into his love, no matter how far we have strayed. In my life, He fulfilled these promises when he brought George into my life, when He was

elderly operator’s world view. One day I asked her how she was always able to maintain such a rosy outlook. She told me that her joy and strength came from the Lord. She knew the only part of life she could control was her reaction to it, so she chose to react with love. I was reminded of her comments many years later when I asked one of the operating room nurses in the hospital where I worked in Wyoming how she could possibly work for her current supervisor and administrator (both of whom were

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