After reading the beginning of Dr. Neal's book, called To Heaven and Back Again, which chronicles her life up until the accident that briefly claimed her life, I enjoyed reading of her reaching, what she called 'a brilliant hall'. She said she:
'knew with a profound certainty that the entry [just past it] represented the last branch point of life, the gate through which each human being must pass. It was clear that this hall is the place where each of us is given the opportunity to review our lives and our choices, and where we are each given a final opportunity to choose God or to turn away---for eternity.'Those sentences stood out to me over everything else I read. To imagine that there's one last chance was so encouraging. We're often so smug about thinking of who gets to and who doesn't get to heaven, when we should be focusing on living our lives the closest to what we believe God's will to be. Dr. Neal emphasizes that as well, speaking of her spiritual growth in the aftermath of her accident and how it benefited her with a later devastating grief concerning her immediate family.
Her story is pure encouragement, and I would definitely recommend her book for anyone who's searching for proof that heaven and eternal life truly exist.
(i received this book free to review from waterbrook press)
