I had a conversation with a wonderful lady named Shirley who is a nurse I know here in Greenville. What she related has given me several things to ponder. Rather than expounding on them, though, I will just tell you Shirley’s story and let you mentally explore it for yourself. 

        Her adult son was in a terrible automobile accident in Florida in which he was hit head on by a drunk driver. Shirley’s son was in ICU for over three weeks in a coma and in very bad condition, near death. To set the stage for what happened you need to be aware that although he said he was a Christian, he had never been a church attender and had never even opened a Bible.                 Suddenly, while still in the coma, Shirley’s son started quoting entire passages of Isaiah, which was most astonishing because, as I said, he knew nothing at all about the Bible. Shirley’s daughter ran to the hospital chapel and got a Bible to see if what he was quoting was correct. Amazingly, it was word for word. Then he quoted, “By His stripes you were healed” and immediately opened his eyes.

        Once out of the coma, Shirley’s son described what had happened. He said he was in a long tunnel that had a glorious light at the end. He expounded on how wonderful and loving the light was. There were two lines of people in the tunnel. One line was moving very fast and was filled with people, all very joyful and singing praise songs to Jesus as they marched by. The line the son was in was moving very slowly, and he never got to the end of the line to the light. While in the line he was given scriptures, which were the verses he was saying out loud to the people around his bed in the hospital room. Then he was told “By His stripes you were healed,” and immediately he awoke from the coma.