The Christian Writing Contest

Hello and thanks for allowing me to write you, my story is a very unique one I really want to share with you and one that is not so easy to tell! I still hope and pray that after I finish this amazing story that it gives hope to people of all faiths and non faith as well!

My whole life is based around 3 minutes of my death that occurred around 11am on September 6, of 1986. On that faithful day I was participating in a 150 mile bicycle charity event in honor of Simona Gonzalez kidney foundation from the hospital that was honoring her. She was a wonderful lady that died of kidney failure and her sons paid tribute to her life by hosting this incredible charity ride in her honor. This was my 2nd time I participated in this 150 mile bicycle ride and we had to finish in under 12 hours or forced to be picked up by sag vehicles and the year before I did so well I completed it in 10 hours.

Well on my 2nd ride in 1986, everything went wrong; we had a heat wave, a terrible headwind and I got a flat on my bike; which caused me to fall too far behind and I literally rode to my death to try and catch up, but the race directors abruptly stopped me to place in their sag vehicle and the stress of riding so hard and suddenly stopping was too much for my body to take and it shut down until I died.

I always considered myself a Christian, but I am also Wicca friendly and the day that I died on the Hi-way I had a very strange Atheist thought: That as soon as I would die I would cease to exist, and I was glad I was leaving this cruel world behind because I had no FEAR what so ever of death! Still though, just before I died I remembered looking up at the sky and thinking that my life is in God's hands now and it comforted me.

I was a good kid but I had been bullied in my younger years and had anger issues with the world so I had no problems leaving this cruel world behind, but something truly amazing happened in my death and it changed me forever!

I didn't lose consciousness, in fact I developed a super consciousness and for one brief moment I was all over the universe and I was the universe when I crossed over to the land of no return! I was never afraid because so many wonderful and mysterious things were happening all around me! I was here, I was there, I was everywhere and nowhere at the same time too! When my traveling stopped I somehow ended up in a foyer entrance to a grand beautiful place that I was mesmerized by and then they came!

It was 12 of the most beautiful humans or angels I have ever seen and I wasn't sure what they were but I did call them family, because even though I never seen them before, they felt like family to me! We spoke telepathically and although they were speaking a foreign language I understood them because it was just like the bible passage of Acts2 (4-47) I actually understood them in my own language! Oh these dear precious angels were so full of unbelievable and unconditional love it overwhelmed me! They were so happy to see me and treated me like royalty and part of their family so much so I was overcome with tears of happiness because of their love! I was nobody special but they treated me like I was and it was the most beautiful moment I ever experienced in my entire life and then the great King approached them!

I was so happy for my "new family" because they were going to see a great king walk by, and they all bowed down in curtsy not out of obligation but with pure joy in their heart as this great king approached them.

Imagine my surprise when this great King I believe was Jesus came directly to me and gently said while smiling at me. "Philip, you're not supposed to be here, I have to take you back to Earth so you can finish living your life!" I was so amazed because I didn't deserve this magnificent king's attention but He was so kind, loving, happy and gentle I was eternally grateful to have this sacred moment with Him! He noticed my concern and said "don't worry if people accept Him or not, just please show them the unconditional love He, and His royal subjects had shown me" Wow! It was such a simple and humble request and one I pray I keep till it is time to return Home!

I just want to say as I leave you that there is a God that loves us very much, there is a Home waiting for us when we cross over to the other side, and there is a family waiting for us that loves us dearly as they come to greet us with utter joy in their heart.

That was the message of Christianity that was given to me on that faithful day of my death and now I humbly share it with you to let you know you never have to be alone or sad when Jesus is in your heart! Love you and God Bless!