Just NDEs Episode 10 - Bob A's Near Death Experience

Just NDEs

Episode 10:
Bob A’s Near Death Experience

Source:
nderf.org

Set and Setting:
1984

Event Description:
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Bet you wonder why I own a church? As a child, I spent a lot of time with my grandparents. They lived in a schoolhouse built in 1896, along the Mississippi River. In 1984, the church was for sale, so I bought it. My grandfather was as proud as could be and said, 'I own the school, you own the church; we can run city hall.'

While working on the church roof, my grandmother brought me lunch. I came down off the roof to take a break. I was paying my brother-in-law to help pick up the garbage as I tore off the roof. I was in a hurry to get back up and finish installing the felt paper, so I left my brother-in-law and grandmother on the front steps, eating their lunch, and went back up on the roof. After working a few days with a rope around my belt, I thought I wouldn't fall, so I didn't use it this time. Thank God I didn't, because a sudden stop halfway down would have surely snapped my back in half.

I remember pulling the nails out of the boards that I was standing on, not knowing that the board was going to tilt. I remember falling over the edge, saying to myself, 'Maybe it isn't that far.' I went flying off the roof. The following experience is so hard to explain, because there is nothing I can compare it to. When I hit the ground, it seemed like the momentum of a freight train going 100 mph knocked me out of my body.

I remember standing up and looking around and seeing that everything was in the color green. Light green, dark green, all shades of green. The church was green; the Mississippi River was green. I thought I broke my head. I put my hands on my head to hold it and laid down on my back. As my body hit the ground again, pictures of my life went through my mind. It was like a freight train of knowledge moving at the speed of light. Each car carried experiences of my life (both good and bad), from the time that I entered my mother's womb until the present. I was the only one to judge my actions. I remember feeling so bad that I hit a frog with a stick as a young child. The last frame was a shot of seeing my wife with my two children, 2 and 4 years old.

After the life review, I heard my grandmother saying prayers over me, so I also said my prayers, 'Dear Lord Jesus, if you let me raise my kids, I will work for you the rest of my life, in your son's name, Jesus Christ, Amen.'

I came back into my body. I noticed that my chest was black and blue from my chin hitting it, but I didn't understand. I had my wisdom teeth pulled a few days previously and forgot to tell the doctors that I was on pain medication from that.

What was amazing was that I had my brother clean up the loose wood around the church the day before. He cleaned all of it except a sheet of plywood that was supported by lumber and rocks about one and one-half inches off the ground. That plywood was enough of a cushion to break my fall so that I didn't die.

I am not the same person that I was before the accident. I know of that person, but our interests and hobbies are totally different. The most remarkable part about my NDE has been the psychic and paranormal gifts afterwards, the most pronounced being the connection with Jesus and the power of prayer.

After returning home, I got a side job working on a custom home. On the same day, a week later, I fell six feet along the foundation; my arm fell out of its socket, and off to the hospital I went again. This time, they X-rayed the top of my body, and they could see that there was a lot of damage. The insurance wouldn't pay for it, because it was a side job. I told them that I fell off a church roof a week before, and this is probably due to that fall, but it didn't help. On the records, it stated that I landed on my feet.
I remember sitting on my bed saying my prayers, 'Dear Lord Jesus, who wants a one-armed carpenter that can't read and write that well?' Then an angel came to me and told me that I will be a boss. Angels never lie, and I have worked on 30 projects so far. And each time I say my prayers, they are always answered.

I was affected my whole life with being dyslexic. I got Ds and Fs all through grade school. I met my wife in high school, and she did all my homework to get me through high school. But the sad thing is that all the people that have the ability to read and write seldom pray to their maker. I wouldn't change my disabilities for anything, for they have opened my eyes to a higher understanding in that my books are open through prayer, and God always puts me on the right page.

A year later, I was talking to my grandmother about falling and walking around and seeing everything green, and holding my head and laying down. My grandmother said, "You fell off the roof, and you never got up until the paramedics put you in the ambulance." I figured she was just old and couldn't remember, because I knew I was walking around, so I called my brother-in-law who was there also. And he said the same thing: "You fell and laid on the ground until the paramedics put you in the ambulance." And I noticed one other thing: it's impossible for me to hold onto my head with one hand on each side and lay down on the ground. But I know I did it. I guess when God laid me back down in my body, I didn't need my physical arms.

P.S. God gave me a great wife, and she is still typing this note for me, overcoming my flaws. And ever since I met her at 15, I thought she was an angel, and I dedicate this page to her for loving me no matter what.

Have a great day, because it's a choice.

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