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Another Sunday evening. I sat in front of the TV, watching football and eating what I called a tuna special\u2014tuna with whatever hap\u00adpened to be in the fridge. I wasn\u2019t much of a cook. I\u2019d eaten a lot of tuna specials since my wife and I separated a year earlier. Our marriage just couldn\u2019t withstand the grief we\u2019d endured since losing two of our kids. Our son James was born prematurely and lived only 10 days. His older brother, Robert, died six years later at 18 of kidney disease. Not a day passed that I didn\u2019t think of them.<\/p>\n

I worked as a landscaper. I had a lot of time to myself as I tended gar\u00addens and mowed lawns. My hobby was metal detecting. I\u2019d found all sorts of old and rare coins. That was something I did alone too. My brother, who owned the landscaping company I worked for, told me I needed to get out more. I knew he was right. I just couldn\u2019t bring myself to do anything about it. I guess I could have gone to church. I believed in God, though I constantly wrestled with the question\u2014if God was so holy and peaceful, why was there so much pain and violence in the world<\/a>? Even in the Bible? I didn\u2019t blame God for what happened to my sons. Still, sometimes I wondered where he\u2019d been then. Had he even noticed?<\/p>\n

Some tuna specials were better than others. This one was giving me indigestion. Maybe a walk would help. I lived on a rural road and it was pitch-dark, but I knew my way.<\/p>\n

Outside was a cold, moonless November night. I turned right toward town, as I usually did. Up ahead, I saw some rowdy guys by the side of the road\u2014they appeared drunk. I didn\u2019t need them ruining my evening. I turned the other way. No streetlights there, but I didn\u2019t mind. It was just the road and the woods. I wasn\u2019t planning on going far.<\/p>\n

I walked a while, then turned around for home. I saw what looked like headlights coming down the road. I stepped onto the shoulder to get out of the way. The ground was oddly soft. I felt myself slip on some wet leaves. Suddenly the earth gave way. I was falling! Plunging headfirst into nothingness. I landed hard. There was a bright flash and a sharp pain in my head. My ribs cracked. My spine twisted. Then I lost consciousness.<\/p>\n

When I came to, I was on my back. Through the gloom I could make out a culvert\u2014a large, rectangular open drain of sorts. I must have stepped off the edge of it in the darkness. I was splayed out on jagged rocks beneath it, where water flowed when it rained. Concrete walls on either side of the culvert obstructed my view\u2014I couldn\u2019t see the road above.<\/p>\n

I felt massive pressure in my chest. I tried to call for help, but the only sound was a barely audible wheeze. Something trickled down my face. I reached up, and my fingers brushed a massive gash on my head.<\/p>\n

You\u2019re in bad shape, Bubba…. You\u2019ve gotta think!<\/em><\/p>\n

No one knew I was here. No one could even see down here from the road. I had to get up there somehow and hope a passing car saw me. Could I move?<\/p>\n

I tried to sit up. Pain seared through my whole body, especially my back. My left arm didn\u2019t work too well. Just move, <\/em>I told myself. I managed to get on all fours and crawl toward the embankment that led up from the culvert. Every inch was agony.<\/p>\n

I reached the embankment and struggled through tangled undergrowth, pulling myself up with branches and tree trunks. It felt like climbing Mount Everest. In my heart, I knew I\u2019d never survive. My only thought was to get up the embankment, so my body would be easier to find later.<\/p>\n

My hand bumped into something large and smooth, lying on the ground. A fallen log, probably stripped smooth from age. It was near the road\u2014I could see that. I wrapped an arm around it and hauled myself partly over it, resting on its surface. I put my head on the smooth wood. A good place to die\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n

Just as I was closing my eyes, the darkness around me seemed to lighten. Was it morning? It couldn\u2019t be. I hadn\u2019t been down there for more than an hour. The brightness intensified. For a moment, it was like I was back in my childhood bedroom and my parents had come in to wake me early for a trip. The light grew and grew until it was almost blinding.<\/p>\n

I squinted. The brightness was so powerful, so dazzling, that I could see everything in the wooded area around me with crystal clarity. The log I clung to, I realized, was old indeed, weathered smooth by time and somewhat hollowed out at the ends, home to insects and other creatures. A universe unto itself.<\/p>\n

Wind swirled the leaves and tossed the branches above. I glanced up. A man was walking toward me. Someone else out for a stroll? The figure stood just a few feet away. At his arrival, my pain subsided. He had a kind, weathered face and a long beard. He wore a robe. The man was not alone. Two children were with him. One, a teenager. The other, a baby.<\/p>\n

I gasped. James and Robert! <\/em>My sons! How? How was it possible?<\/p>\n

I looked at the figure again, desperate for answers. The air around him sparkled with iridescence. The questions faded from my mind. And I knew without a doubt. I was staring into the face of God.<\/p>\n

The wind quieted. The woods became utterly still.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m ready to come to you, God!\u201d I cried out.<\/p>\n

A voice spoke inside me. <\/a>\u201cIt\u2019s not your time, Jim. There are things left for you to do for me.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cMe?\u201d I said, breathless. \u201cI\u2019m no one special. I don\u2019t go to church. I don\u2019t even read the Bible!\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cYou are special because you are my child. You don\u2019t have to know the Bible to know me. My blessing is in everything. Learn to see those blessings and treasure them. Then tell everyone about me….\u201d<\/p>\n

It felt as if we talked for a long time. But I never spoke to my sons. I didn\u2019t have to. I knew they were with God, that they were cared for. For the first time in my life, I was filled with indescribable peace. I wanted the feeling to go on and on. I wanted to lie on that log forever!<\/p>\n

But the light began to fade. The figure receded. My sons too. The wind moved again, rustling the trees. The dark night returned. And, with it, agonizing pain.<\/p>\n

This time, though, I didn\u2019t mind. I knew now there was nothing to fear. I had things I needed to do for God. I couldn\u2019t waste time. I had <\/em>to get up. I pulled myself to my feet. How, ex\u00adactly, I couldn\u2019t say.<\/p>\n

I wasn\u2019t able to stand up straight\u2014my back hurt too much and my legs barely worked. But somehow I hobbled across the road to the nearest house. I knocked on the door. It creaked open.<\/p>\n

\u201cHelp,\u201d I wheezed.<\/p>\n

When I woke up in the hospital, I learned I\u2019d been in a coma for seven days. My skull was cracked. My shoulder blade, 11 ribs and 10 vertebrae were broken. Turned out, a guardrail above the culvert had washed out years ago and I\u2019d stepped right off the edge. I\u2019d fallen 14 feet.<\/p>\n

My brother came to visit. I knew I had to talk about what happened. But part of me wasn\u2019t sure if I\u2019d imagined it all. I\u2019d suffered a head injury, after all. Maybe I\u2019d made up that whole part about the log. Did it even exist? Had I been hallucinating?<\/p>\n

\u201cBubba, how did you crawl back up to the road?\u201d my brother asked me.<\/p>\n

I opened my mouth to tell him about seeing God…and hesitated. \u201cI think,\u201d I finally said, \u201cI think I saw God.\u201d<\/p>\n

My brother looked skeptical. \u201cYou were in pretty bad shape,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

I told him about the log. The light. Seeing my kids.<\/p>\n

My brother\u2019s face changed. \u201cA smooth log?\u201d he said. \u201cYou\u2019re sure? How were you able to see it in the darkness?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI saw every inch of it,\u201d I said. \u201cThe light was so bright!\u201d<\/p>\n

I couldn\u2019t tell if he thought I was nuts. Maybe I was. But later, when I was transferred to rehab, he took me to the computer room and pulled up a photo. \u201cI took this the morning after you fell,\u201d he said, showing me an image of the area around the culvert. \u201cYou can\u2019t see it, but there was blood everywhere.\u201d<\/p>\n

And there, near the top of the embankment by the side of the road, was an old log. The same one I\u2019d described to my brother, straight out of a coma.<\/p>\n

It was not <\/em>just another Sunday evening.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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