What Daniel saw in Heaven is amazing! Even so, look deeper and see God enticing us to trust that Heaven is multiple orders of magnitude greater than what a baby experiences in leaving the womb for this incomparable world of color, music, beauty and immensity. Click over to the full Family Conquest. The “To Do” activity in the Wrapping It Up section asks families to think of one of their favorite places. Then, thank God for making it.
On November 30th, 2001, Nigerian Daniel Ekechukwu died and was in the morgue for 3 days. Miraculously, he came back to life and had been given a message to share. This video is a reenactment of his description of Heaven:
Please note that the Catholic Church doesn’t have a formal teaching on Near Death Experiences (NDE). This video was selected to expand our imagination of what heaven could be like. Though such accounts are fascinating and inspiring, you cannot rely on them as being definitively true. Of the many NDE accounts, some have been found to be untrue or misperceived by the person who had the experience, since their story contradicted what we know is absolutely true from the Gospels and Church teaching.
Spiritual Nuggets for Family Discussion
Open with a prayer.
(i.e. a Glory Be, or Our Father, or Hail Mary, or ‘Jesus, Mary, Joseph, we love You! Save souls!’)
- Glowing radiance.
- Light.
- Music.
- Musical instruments never before heard.
- Singing.
- Worshipping.
- Joy.
- Radiant Mansions not made of earthly material.
- A dream.
- Winning a game or an award.
- Being rejected.
- Being chosen.
- Having a loved one die.
- Falling in love.
- Seeing something you have never seen before.
- Tasting a new, delicious food.
- Yes!
- Jesus even promised us that nothing we have heard, seen, or could possibly imagine will come close to the goodness of heaven. -cf 1 Cor 2:9
- Because Jesus, who is God, left the fantasticalness of Heaven, became a baby, lived, loved, taught, worked miracles, started the Catholic Church, suffered horrific tortures, died a gruesome death, and rose again, all for one reason: to give you the possibility of eternal life in Heaven.
- Nothing you work toward on earth, nothing, nothing, nothing, will ever compare to the prize of Heaven.
- To not love and follow God and make it to Heaven is the greatest tragedy in the universe.
- On the other hand: “To fall in love with God is the greatest romance; to seek Him the greatest adventure; to find Him, the greatest human achievement.” – St Augustine.
- In the Old Testament, Moses challenged the Israelites to choose what they were living for: “I call Heaven and earth to witness against you this day, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and curse; therefore choose life, that you and your descendants may live, loving the Lord your God, obeying His voice, and clinging to Him: for that means life to you and length of days.” -Deut 30:19-20
Close with a prayer.
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