Years ago a retired Navy vet worked for the same company I did. He was a womanizing, cussing, drinking fool. He foolishly climbed up on the forks of a fork truck and fell. He was in critical condition and suffered a broken back and some internal injuries. He was never able to return to work but did drop in to see us a few times. He said "I met Jesus that day in the warehouse". He started going to church and was saved. He was a changed person.
Also I was at the death bed of my father in law. He had been unconscious for days when suddenly he opened his eyes looked up and said, "I don't want the angels to see me like this"...he died moments later.
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Although Dutch Reagan, because of the Alzheimer's, hadn't been able to return his wife's affection like he used to, somehow, someway, he managed to do it one last time just before he passed away...
"And as Nancy Reagan publicly showed her heartbreak, details of her final private moment with the love of her life were revealed last night as one of deep sorrow and miraculous surprise.
The former First Lady believes her long-suffering husband recognized her when he stared into her eyes for an instant before taking his last breath, his daughter Patti Davis writes.
"It was the greatest gift he could have given me," the former First Lady told her family.
Sobbing, shaking and knowing death was imminent, she held her husband's hand about 1 p.m. Saturday as he inhaled deeply and opened his eyes for the first time in five days.
While most thought Alzheimer's disease had robbed former President Reagan of all his memory, the last look he gave his wife was one of deep acknowledgment, Davis writes for People magazine in its upcoming edition.
"At the last moment when his breathing told us this was it, he opened his eyes and looked straight at my mother. Eyes that had not opened for days did, and they weren't chalky or vague," Davis recalls. "They were clear and blue and full of life. If a death can be lovely, his was."
Davis and her brother Ron were standing next to their father's bed when the astonishing interchange between their parents took place.
"In his last moment he taught me that there is nothing stronger than love between two people, two souls," Davis writes. "It was the last thing he could do to show my mother how entwined their souls are and it was everything."
The former President died just before Michael Reagan entered his father's room, but he said the look on Nancy Reagan's face revealed she had been given a gift even as she began to mourn her loss.
"His last earthy look was at his wife, his next look was at the face of God," Michael Reagan told People."
"He was never able to return to work but did drop in to see us a few times. He said "I met Jesus that day in the warehouse". He started going to church and was saved. He was a changed person."
Every NDE I've read or heard about has changed their lives around for the better.
My Atheist relative had spent his life drinking & going around in a drunken stupor...until one day when he was riding his motorcycle & had a head on accident with a 1 ton truck. His odds of surviving the accident was very slim.
He had a NDE & was watching the doctors as they were working on him...he said he was up in the corner of the room watching.
He also continued on with his journey (NDE)& saw something there so fearful that he'd turn white & would be visibly shaken whenever we asked him what else he saw.
He changed his life around...stopped drinking...went to church, and would only tell us that he never wanted to end up in the place that he visited, for all eternity.
I met a remarkable, grace-filled young man who told me that he had been a swaggering, hard-drinking, drug-using, fighting bar brawler when one night someone put a gun to his head and pulled the trigger. The gun didn't fire. He was seated next to me on a flight from NY to CA, quietly reading his Bible, on his way home from having testified to a convention center filled with young people. God works in mysterious ways.
I also know a family where, thirty years ago now, the parents called the police on their daughter because she was so out of control. Today she has a beautiful family and is the wife/partner of a Pastor of the Youth Program in a huge church.