heaven is for real conversation guide todd burpo

Colton, a five year old boy is a very active kid, and always has a lot of energy.

With the main character Colton Burpo, and his family. It is an incredible novel of a boy that goes on a journey to heaven and back. The book Heaven Is For Real, by Todd Burpo is very touching nonfiction novel. I am glad I read it because it made me think, but I don't think the details of the story were important to get me there. Do I think they are delusional? No - and I am now stuck in a place where I don't know how to explain my thoughts about the story. Do I take the story at its word? Probably not, but I also don't think the author and people from the story are lying. I don't doubt the truth of the story told by the Pastor/Father of the boy, but it does seem to be very specific in its details for quotes and specific details that were recalled over the course of years. However, the story was nice to read, I could feel for the people involved, and like many other reviews point out, it makes you think.

It was not great literature, and the story itself could have been told in half (or less) the pages. This is a difficult book to rate as an objective reader. This was a very short book that tells the story of a little boy who came close to dying and later tells the story of how he went to Heaven. If it's legit, then perhaps we have something to look forward to… Read more How much of it you believe…well, that's up to you, but I think it's plenty to say this is an unusual story about an out-of-this world series of events. And don't worry, I won't give any more of it away, though the title should give you enough of a clue. I have a lot of theories, but this isn't the time or place. I always believed that you're never closer to God when you're young, and that you drift away as you age. Maybe it is easier for a child to understand this sort of thing. Colton speaks in the frank nature of one of his years, and of things beyond our ken as adults…certainly far beyond that of a child.īut perhaps that's not true. Now, this sort of thing has been described before, but perhaps not in this way. Things that happened to him while he was being worked on, when he passed unknowingly from life to death…something even his parents weren't aware had happened at the time.

A massive infection ensues, and pretty soon you're at death's door, and you have his spare key.Īnyway, little Colton's story is just beginning, because later, after he's recovered, he starts telling his father (a Pastor at a small church) some pretty remarkable things. It's fairly similar in scope to what happened to my wife back in 1991, though her problems were caused by the procedure, rather than remedied by it…but that's a different story. How you view this book is liable to be determined by how you are swayed by the story it tells: a four-year-old boy falls sick and eventually is hospitalized with a slow-to-be-diagnosed battle with acute appendicitis, then much worse.

Heaven is for real conversation guide todd burpo