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This book would have been given a lowly one star rating if it weren't for the fact that the writing wasn't bad on a sentence level. Otherwise though, I hated it. This was one of the last books my grandmother read before she died (clearly she was hoping for confirmation of heaven) and she recommended it to me as a "feel good story". But it didn't make me feel good at all (sorry, Grandma). It made me clench my fists in anger. This was nothing but Christian propaganda written with no structure whatsoever. I'm not anti-Christian but I'm also not Christian. Know-it-all attitudes like that of this book's author is part of what turns me away from Christianity. This book was no exception. In fact, I think all Todd Burpo really accomplished with this one was giving people who already had faith in Christianity some "proof" at the expense of his son's near death experience. No three-year-old would be able to articulate what the author says Colton Burpo did. What the author says happened is psychologically impossible for a three-year-old, presented as a miracle. I don't believe it. I think what we have here is a pastor trying to make a few bucks to help pay his son's medical bills.