Near Death Experience
It was early on the morning of March 17, 2022. I was feeling bad but couldn’t figure out what was wrong. I got up, dressed, and sat down to put on my shoes. Then in a blink of an eye, I found myself in another place. I didn’t realize I was passing over. I didn’t feel different. I still felt like me.
I began to look around and it appeared I was in an arched tunnel with large columns on the side. The columns were very close together and they reminded me of the columns of ancient Greek architecture. Between the columns, I could see what looked like the Milky Way. It was very pretty.
After looking around at the columns, I began moving forward. I wasn’t really walking. I was sort of floating but it felt completely natural. It was at this point I began to realize two things.
- There was a freeing feeling of having no guilt. This is a very difficult to explain. All of our sins are washed away when we accept Jesus but our flesh struggles to grasp that, or at least mine does.
- So many things we place importance on, don’t matter.
It was then that I looked up and saw the light. A man stepped forward and I knew it was the man I had fallen in love with many years before. I had been deeply grieving his death for 35 years. My heart had never fully recovered from the loss. As wonderful as it was, to finally see him again (which is what my heart had longed for), I could only focus on the light.
I knew as I was looking at the light I was seeing God. The only way I know how to describe it is to use the sun as an example. There is a physical sun, but we often refer to the light that comes from the sun as one in the same. It’s as if the light was an extension of God.
I remember the excitement I felt as I began moving closer to the light. I drew me like nothing ever before. It was absolutely stunning. I knew it was going to be the most beautiful thing I would ever see, and I couldn’t wait to bask in His beauty.
Another truth that came to me at that moment was that there isn’t even a speck of light anywhere without God.
1 John 1:5 says “This then is the message which we have heard of him, and declare unto you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.”
I had read this verse many times but never realized that when it says “God is light,” it is literal.
Then, all of a sudden, I was back in my earthly body.
It was a wonderful experience, and I wholeheartedly look forward to the day I will return to heaven to live forever!
~ Toy
