“This is the story of a little girl’s love of a green dress, a mother who tries to instill independence, and how those two things came together in the most epic and brilliant combination possible."
Dr. Eben Alexander, a neurosurgeon and former agnostic, suffered a rare and severe case of streptococcal meningitis which caused his brain to flatline. Dr. Alexander made a miraculous recovery and says the experience taught him to “realize that our souls are eternal.”
“I hadn't seen him in nearly 13 years, he was 4 years old then, but everything seemed to fit… I slowly walked over to him, and his family. I slowly approached him, and when he looked at me... I shattered the ice."
Many families suffered terrible losses earlier this month when a tornado with 150 mile per hour winds whipped through the Clarksville, Tennessee area. One young mother, Sydney Moore, is thanking God that her family was spared.
"I know I'm doing it for Jesus. I know that he's real," said Landon. "I know that angels are there. I know that there's a heaven. I'm not doing it for someone I don't know or that I've never seen. I've seen Jesus. I know he's there. He's asked me to do this and this is what I'm doing."
"I don’t want you to think I am crazy. I just HAD to take this in for a moment. I even called my wife.’ Puzzled, I asked him, ‘What’s wrong?’ When he had turned over the cards, he saw the names of my babies... I looked at him with complete shock and utter disbelief."
"She wasn’t crying or screaming. She looked me dead in my face. But the love for my beautiful newborn daughter didn’t stop me from going out to the parking lot to get high before we ever even left the hospital."
