My thoughts after reading Don Piper's inspiring book: Life is precious. LIfe is fragile. We must make the most of every day! Life can be taken from us in an instant. We can be granted "extra" time on earth from the Giver of all Life. If we trust in the Lord we can overcome every obstacle.

This is a book that will make you more fully appreciate life...and understand that there IS a life after death.

[[ASIN:0757300537 Christmas Gifts, Christmas Voices]]--another book that attests to a life beyond this one.

Don Piper was a 38-year-old Baptist preacher with a wife and three children when he was in a terrible automobile accident. The police pronounced him dead and covered him with a tarp and Piper then spent 90 minutes at the gates of Heaven. His description of the experience is very interesting, although I wish he had written more than one chapter of the book about his memories of his time in Heaven. The majority of the book is devoted to his long and painful recovery, but he ends by giving examples of how he has been able to serve God in a special way as a result of his accident, while ministering to those who are suffering. The subject of near-death experiences has always been an interesting one to me and I choose to believe that Don Piper was actually at the gates of Paradise. As to why Piper returned to earth to go through an excruciating recovery, he and I will not know that until we go to Heaven.