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Oh wait--did I read this book already? No, that was "Proof of Heaven." Both of these books are disappointing to me. Why?
I want to believe that if there is an afterlife, that it is undescribable--that people who have a near-death experience would come back and say, "I could not even tell you what it was like because what it is like is nothing like what exists on earth."
I held off as long as possible not reading it until the chance to listen on audiobook for free on a long car trip found me. OK, I'll give it a shot...
I started out really liking Todd Burpo and his wife. They seem so nice! They meet playing softball! They have a really nice shared childcare/worklife. They're broke but they just pray about it instead of saying, "Whose idea was it to operate a garage door company as our main source of income??" When their kids get a 48-hour stomach bug, they don't scream at each other, "Don't you think we should take the kids to the ER already?" or "It's your turn to hold the towel!" or "I told you we should not have gone on this trip!"
And that's the problem--this book is ghostwritten. Even Colton seems not like a real boy, but a boy void of anything that would make him unlikable--or real.
Do I really want to go to a heaven where I have to fight dragons with swords? And I am really troubled by Colton's meeting his miscarried sister--if life begins at conception (I'm just making the assumption that their church believes so) then wouldn't we meet all of our unborn siblings, many of whom our parents wouldn't even know about? Why would we meet older people who look to be in their mid-twenties? And then why would the kids look like kids? Is there an age cut-off?
I give two stars for the description of hometown Nebraska life where you don't mind driving an hour to Wal-Mart, and everyone is nice. And patient. And gullible. And I don't necessarily think Todd Burpo and Colton made all of this up--they may really believe that's what Colton saw and that that what's heaven looks like. I also like the audio guys pleasant mid-Western voice. Only if you're really bored.
I want to believe that if there is an afterlife, that it is undescribable--that people who have a near-death experience would come back and say, "I could not even tell you what it was like because what it is like is nothing like what exists on earth."
I held off as long as possible not reading it until the chance to listen on audiobook for free on a long car trip found me. OK, I'll give it a shot...
I started out really liking Todd Burpo and his wife. They seem so nice! They meet playing softball! They have a really nice shared childcare/worklife. They're broke but they just pray about it instead of saying, "Whose idea was it to operate a garage door company as our main source of income??" When their kids get a 48-hour stomach bug, they don't scream at each other, "Don't you think we should take the kids to the ER already?" or "It's your turn to hold the towel!" or "I told you we should not have gone on this trip!"
And that's the problem--this book is ghostwritten. Even Colton seems not like a real boy, but a boy void of anything that would make him unlikable--or real.
Do I really want to go to a heaven where I have to fight dragons with swords? And I am really troubled by Colton's meeting his miscarried sister--if life begins at conception (I'm just making the assumption that their church believes so) then wouldn't we meet all of our unborn siblings, many of whom our parents wouldn't even know about? Why would we meet older people who look to be in their mid-twenties? And then why would the kids look like kids? Is there an age cut-off?
I give two stars for the description of hometown Nebraska life where you don't mind driving an hour to Wal-Mart, and everyone is nice. And patient. And gullible. And I don't necessarily think Todd Burpo and Colton made all of this up--they may really believe that's what Colton saw and that that what's heaven looks like. I also like the audio guys pleasant mid-Western voice. Only if you're really bored.