For how would Colton know that his sister he met doesn’t have a name because Sonja and Todd were not really able to give her one?
When Colton spoke of meeting his sister in heaven who died prematurely as a baby and how does she look like, Sonja was in floods of tears, finding herself convinced modestly of the earnest and true stories of her son. When Todd showed his grandfather Pop’s old photo with eye glasses, Colton said, he was not the one he saw because “Nobody wears glasses in heaven.” When Todd showed another younger photo of Pop, Colton said “Yes, I met him.
All the while, his father felt deep inside that his son is telling truthfully, expressing some amazement and wonder how Colton made mention of some dead family members his son didn’t ever get the chance to know and meet before.Ĭolton said he met in heaven his great grandpa named Pop. His mother Sonja casually dismissed it as just a figment of a smart child’s imagination. It was written in 2011 by Todd Burpo, the little boy’s father, a pastor in one small Midwest town in South Dakota.Įvery now and then at playtime or in bed, Colton would share with his father the beautiful experience seeing heaven in bits and pieces. 1 New York Times bestseller book with self-same title Heaven is for Real. On top it all, how he saw heaven - that heaven is real.īefore Heaven is for Real exhibition in the wide screens across the globe, Colton’s out-of-the-body experience was read far and wide in a 164-page No. He recounts how he saw the doctors cared for his dying body, how his grieving father “shouted” at God inside the hospital chapel, and how his mother called her friends over the phone to pray for his recovery. He was believed to be dying but miraculously survived.īack to his being cheeky and lively, Colton at times recalls his ordeal in the hospital of his otherworldly experiences. It is a true story of Colton Burpo, a three-year-and-10-month-old boy then, who had been under a closer watch of the doctors because of a ruptured appendix, made more complicated that it burst five days before the operation and pus had already accumulated in his stomach. If there’s but one movie to watch during Lent or any other time of the year, it will be Heaven is for Real above all else.
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