The boy who came back from heaven Review

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     The boy who came back from heaven is a life changing story and is one of my all time favorite books.  This is one of those books where you look at life differently after you finish reading it.  The boy who came back from heaven is a true story about a boy named Alex Malarkey and it is written by him and his father Kevin.  When Alex was just six years old he and his father were in a serious car crash  Kevin was thrown from the vehicle and Alex was medically decapitated.  Kevin recovered pretty quickly but Alex was seriously injured.  Most doctors did not think that it would be possible for someone to survive Alex's injuries.  After being in a coma for a couple of months Alex wakes up and has an amazing story to tell.  Alex went to Heaven and saw God, Jesus, angels, and experienced the city.  He describes Heaven as a beautiful place with bright colors and with things similar to what we have here on earth like trees, lakes, and mountains; except he says that heaven is perfect. Alex overcomes many challenges in his young life. He has had many surgeries, including the Christopher Reeve surgery and he even had to relearn how to talk.

       I love this book and I think that everyone could benefit from reading it.  This story really showed me that we need to put our trust and faith in God.  The family goes through so many hardships in this time period: their son is severely hurt and goes into a coma for months followed by a long recovery,  they have an immense amount of medical bills to pay,  they have to get a van that is accessible to Alex and a lot of medical equipment, they have three other kids that they had to care for, and they had to keep their marriage strong through all of this.  Although the family does get a little down at times , overall the stay super positive and trust that God will get them through everything and he does.  They are asked to sign up for a certain type of insurance and a great majority of the medical bills are covered, Alex gets better each day, a van is donated to them, people offer to fix their roof, and they are still happily married.  I feel that if the family could stay positive through all of this then I can stay positive too.  I think that in general we get negative way too fast over small things in life. Instead of getting negative about things that aren't going our way we should be grateful about all the things we do have and stay positive.  As stated in Matthew 19 verse 26: Jesus looked at them and said, "With man this is impossible, but with God all things are possible."  We need to put our trust in God and he will help us to do the impossible.

    I encourage everyone to read this book because it could change your life! :)