Thanks so much for stopping by. My hope is that you will be encouraged and comforted by traveling with us on this adventure as you see how God can take the challenges of life to assure us of the living hope that is available by faith to us all through Jesus Christ.

Thanks, also, to each of you who have personally ministered to me and my family through your thoughts, prayers of faith, visits, messages, many acts of kindness and words of encouragement, especially during those dark days, and then for the long haul during my extended recovery season.

Sunday, February 26, 2012

The Parallel Journey

If you've followed our story from the beginning, you know that during November 2011, I entered the hospital for what was expected to be about 4 days for lung surgery and recovery.  But because of extreme complications that followed, the hospitalization actually lasted for 7 weeks.   The first 10 days were most severe, so much so that my family and the medical staff at times did not think I would survive.  I was totally unaware of all of this, being heavily sedated and medically paralyzed for several days to give my body a better chance to recover.

In spite of my critical physical condition, I was simultaneously very much aware of being on a different journey that I can only describe as an “experience”.  It was not like a misty and incoherent dream, but rather a journey or process that had definite beginning and ending points with a continuous thread of related thoughts and events, punctuated throughout with many details that I still vividly remember.  

It began as an adventure that my wife Sherril and I had decided to take, having read a book about the amazing journey another couple had taken.  We also wanted to go and come back so we could tell people about the place they had seen.  That place was none other than…Hell!  

What I saw and experienced could fill a book, but, briefly, it was a journey into the earth on something like a theme park ride that transported us from the entrance on a slow, downward spiraling track.  It gradually deteriorated from entertainment into gloom, apprehension, and trials.   

Although I had expected the trip would not be easy, I had felt that it would be worth it to gain first-hand knowledge so I could warn people effectively and with passion about this place.  But I had no idea of what lay ahead.  In future posts I plan to share more details of what that experience taught me and how it has changed my life.
       

But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God's own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of Him who has called you out of darkness into His marvelous light;  1 Peter 2:9

1 comment:

  1. We are looking forward to your more experience!

    Mary&Moses

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