Good afternoon Readers,
This week I want to discuss the near death experience that is described in the book. We have all heard about “near death experiences”. If God gives you another opportunity to reset your life, go with it. Hand God the wheel and let him drive. I certainly don’t believe that you need a near death experience to reset your life because as I reflected throughout my life I saw plenty of signs or “wake up calls” that I missed along the way. Quick story, I was on vacation some time ago in Florida and I saw a young man across the pool that looked like he was a soldier and victim of an IED. I waded over to talk with him and asked about his experience. To my surprise he was not a soldier, but had been hit head on by a car while crossing the street a few years earlier. He broke nearly every bone in his body and the scares told the story. After describing the night it happened, he surprised me by saying, ” I don’t think God was sending me a message. I have searched through my life and I can’t find anything to change. The accident must have been for the driver to learn something deeper.” I didn’t know what to say. If I ever had the chance again, I would start by saying you were hit by a car while running across a city street at 2:00 am after a long night of drinking and then spent a month and half in a coma so that God could heal your body and you don’t think God was sending a message your way. Not everyone is ready to receive a message.
In my accident, I don’t ever recall seeing a light; however, the experience of viewing the accident from a position above is my experience. I am still not sure if that experience was my spirit or soul leaving the body to escape the physical pain or if it was something deeper. What I do know is that as I healed and my ego began to rebuild it’s identity this experience became a marker , so to speak. There were clear visions on a daily basis that were a constant reminder that this did happen. At first, I told nobody including my wife that these were happening. Eventually, I couldn’t hold it in any longer and I told my wife and my in-laws of what was going on. I can only speak of the visions, in my opinion, as if God was reaching out to me for a future cause or a reminder of his involvement. The final straw was the experience with a new client of mine. At that time, I knew something needed to happen in my life or at least I knew that the moment would become something far greater for me. It turns out that those moments were a key reminder for me to fall back on as the rebuilding ego was losing perspective again. The chapter in the book about balance is still today one the most awe inspiring times of my life. Jumping back to the accident itself, God kept me calm. I had no idea how bad the damage was to my arm, I simply knew that I was in serious trouble. It was as if God simply got me down the ladder and to the top of the hill where I could get help. In the book, I talk about several key moments where it could have easily gone the other way. When I started to recognize the miracles that were happening, I began to see my surroundings as one singular event as if it was all choreographed and interconnected. I picked out a few moments to write about in the book but the further away my view got the more I could see the relevance of every thing being connected, even the negative things had means to a better future. As people, we tend to live in a melting pot of moments. This includes worrying about things that have already past, overthinking what might happen in the future and rarely spending any time in the present. Looking back at all of the things that could have gone wrong, the near death experience doesn’t scare me. It is the possibility of falling out of balance again and losing a unique perspective that was given to me. I only hope during the next several weeks of discussions, that I can help someone see a much larger world that gives them hope.
The chapter in the book about balance is still today one the most awe inspiring times of my life.
Thank you for the support
Bill
