The account is taken from the book In Search of Angels which provides a more complete description of the incident.
….. .I found myself ....... in a completely different sphere. It was beautiful beyond description and we were walking on a path.... It was a different world than this one.... As we walked along the path I noticed a profusion of flowers and trees. They were of a wider variety, and they had many more colors than on earth or maybe it was that I could see more colors than on earth, I'm not sure.
... I noticed someone on the path ahead of us. As we got closer to the individual I could see and feel that he was a magnificent person. I felt overwhelmed as I looked at him. He was bathed in light. [My guide] asked if I knew who that was, and I answered yes. It was Jesus Christ. when we got close to the Savior, I felt a tremendous love emanating from him. It's hard to describe, but you could feel it all around him. And I felt a singular enormous love for him. I fell at his feet-not because I thought about it, but I couldn't stand. I felt an overpowering urge to fall at his feet and worship him.
... As I knelt there at the feet of this marvelous being I became conscious of my past life being reviewed for me. It seemed to occur in a short period, and I felt the Savior's love during the entire process. That love .... . well, it was everywhere. And it was as if we could communicate with each other without speaking. After a period the Savior reached down and I knew I should stand. As soon as l stood, he left.
~y guide] next led me to a city. It was a city of light. It was similar to cities on earth in that there were buildings and paths, but the buildings and paths appeared to be built of materials which we consider precious on earth. They looked like marble, and gold, and silver, and other bright materials, only they were different. The buildings and streets seemed to have a sheen and to glow. The entire scene was one of indescribable beauty.
... There was a feeling of love and peace. On earth there always seems to be something . . . you know how things bother you here. There's always some problem troubling you either it's health, or money, or people, or war or something. That was missing there. I felt completely at peace, as if there were no
problems which were of concern. It wasn't that there were no challenges. It's just that everything
seemed to be under control. It was such a wonderful feeling that I never wanted to lose it.
And there was the feeling of love. Love from... from Jesus Christ. It emanated from him, and it was all around; it was everywhere....
The event described by my father occurred in 1922 while he was
working in Bingham, Utah for Western Union, and was the result of a
massive heart attack. My mother, my grandmother, and my aunt were
present during the attack. My father ultimately recovered and lived a
full life, passing away in 1963.
( from Fingerprints of God by Arvin S. Gibson , pp. 27-28, Horizon Publishers 1999, Bountiful,
Utah )
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