This is really an important part of the "OUR COMFORTING ANGEL" story that I thought deserved some very special attention. It is a Near Death Experience of a beautiful child, a beautiful feeling, and indeed a beautiful experience.

It may have been a child's dream, but children's dreams are not usually that vivid and memorable. YOU BE THE JUDGE!

While I "slept" on that operating table, I was still in the presence of that same angel who comforted me as I fell asleep. The same one that comforted my mother while she waited and worried.

I "dreamed" of being in an incredibly, indescribable place of beauty, peace and tranquillity. I was in a garden that seemed to be within a garden. Everything was warm and glowing.

There were birds, lots of birds of all different colors. the song from each bird filled the air with the most beautiful sound as all the bird songs came together and became one glorious harmonious sound.

The flowers all had their own special scent, and surprising to me though just a child, each scent was individual, as if the scents did not blend as one.

I was sitting in a lap that was wonderfully soft and warm with comforting arms around me. More importantly, I felt safe and warm and comforted. I could FEEL the grass tickling my bare feet, as if it were playing with my toes. My senses became very sharp. I was very much aware of each scent of each flower and the sight and song of each bird.

It had felt "SO REAL A PLACE". it could not possible have been a dream. This was one of God's "WAITING ROOMS". A place somewhere between HEAVEN and EARTH. A place where people, especially children go to wait their fate on Earth, when something traumatic happens in their lives.

This little bit of HEAVEN has remained with me. It has made me a better person for having glimpsed the beauty that awaits each and every one of us.

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