...... I was 19, shortly after getting home from college my freshman year. I was at my cousins house messing around and a friend happen to be out in the yard riding his ATV 4 wheeler. Well, I always like to ride motor cycles pull wheelies, do crazy stuff but had never ridden an ATV 4 wheeler, so I ask him if I could ride the ATV and he said sure. After getting on it riding around in my cousins yard for a few minutes getting my confidence built up, I wanted to try and pull a wheelie and see how far I could ride it(yea I know but hey, I was 19). I seen a little mound in the yard so I thought I would hit it, pull back on the handle bar and see what it would do. Well, if I only would have new that would have been my last day/minute/second here on earth for all of eternity! When I pulled back on the handle, I didn't pull back hard enough and it landed on the front 2 wheels and it already had a forward momentum therefore kept going forward upside down landing right on top of me. It weighed around 600lbs landing right on top of me and I wasn't wearing a helmet. After it landed on me, it bounced 1 more time and landed back on its wheels, that's how much momentum it had going forwarded using me as the trampoline.

My cousin seen it happen and ran down to the spot in his yard I was at. I was lying on my back not moving. He looked into my eyes and they had rolled back, all he could see was the white of my eyes and he knew it wasn't good. He ran up to the house to get his parents and just so happened(Lords will) there was the dad of my friend there that had been in the military and knew about this kind of stuff and he ran down and kept me from swallowing my tongue. I started spitting up blood so they new the 4 wheeler had crushed things inside of me, not to mention my head, that had been landed on. Luckily the doctor at the bottom of their driveway just happen to be home also (Lords will again) and he came right up and kept me alive until the ambulance got there. I died twice going to the hospital, well, my heart ASYSTOLE(aka FLATLINED) and they had to put those electrical blaster things on my chest and shock me to get my heart to start beating again, which without the shocker things I was a goner.

After arriving at the hospital emergency room, they got me out of the ambulance and inside and did test on me to see where I was at. At the hospital, my family was informed that there was only a slim possibility that I would even live and if I did live I was for sure to be brain dead due to my extensive brain injury. They've gone through these kinds of accidents before so they new the usual outcome of the patients and were just trying to be real with my parents. It put me in a coma for 11 days, they had me on life support systems giving me oxygen, food, etc.....tubes all in my body. They weren't for sure if I’d ever even come out of the coma. My body got down to like 115lbs and I was 5'10" there was nothing left of me, just skin and bones.

The Lord has blessed me with a God fearing family that are prayer warriors. I had so many people praying for me, including the Gideon prayer chain my dad started, which reached out to people all over the US & possibly the world. I thank God for this because I know that these prayers were heard and with the Lords mercy, saved my life. God not only listened but He mercifully answered those prayers! I am living proof that He exists. I should have died that day going to the hospital, well I did FLATLINE twice but God had other plans for me, thank the Lord! I did not know Him before that accident. I was a good guy, had good parents who loved me so much and brought me up in the Lord. They taught me right from wrong which I am so thankful for, them being those kinds of parents!!! What is so hard to grasp or envision is, I did not know Him as my personal Lord & Savior and was on my way to hell, trapped forever in a torment uncomprehendable! I did not deserve or was not worthy of it but the Lord gave me another chance!!! Thank you Father!!!

I knew of Him very well. I knew all the bible stories and learned the books of the bible. I went to church every Sunday and Wednesday but still did not know Him as my personal Lord and Savior! He convicted me time and time again but I always kept putting Him off thinking I had time but at that moment my time was over and all that was left would have been Judgement Day! If I would have died, the only other words I would have ever heard would have been, "Depart from me into ever lasting fire, Forever!" When I think about that, I cannot even describe the feelings because I did not know Him and I would have been sent/trapped in Hell for Eternity and it would have been my own fault. I new what He did for me on that Cross 2000yrs ago.... I thought I had plenty of time! I had so many opportunities but death, no way, that's for old people, I had plenty of time. Little did I know, that was my last day for all Eternity if He would not had given me another chance! Thank you Father! I'm just trying to so empress on you, NO ONE KNOWS THEIR LAST DAY! Without Him as your Personal Father/Savior just gives the devil another chance another day....! You've probably made some bad choices in life, I know I have. Maybe chose the wrong friends, the wrong career, even the wrong spouse. You look back over your life and say, "If only . . . . if only there could be some way I could make up for those bad choices." You can. One good choice for eternity offsets a thousand bad ones on earth. The choice is yours!

I was only 19, healthy as could be, I didn't think I had to worry about that yet. Now I see the devils #1 line, 'You've got Plenty of Time' trying his best to take who ever he can to hell with him! He was trying his best to keep me from Heaven and to keep me from finding out how AWESOME it is to have Jesus as my Father, my Savior, forgiving me for all my sins. Not only my past sins but the sins in the FUTURE, He can already see (He can see the future perfectly, He created time). He knows exactly what's out there but He still loves me and is still willing to give me Eternal life and a home in Heaven. He even knows exactly where & when I will fail / sin every time from now until I go and be with Him in Heaven someday and He still loves me, unthinkable to understand how He could do that! His love for us is more than words can describe! Thank you Father!

One I'll probably never forget! After coming out of my coma, still in the emergency room, still with tubes in my arms and chest, partially paralysed, right side because it was a left front lobel brain injury which affects the opposite side. Well, I knew my friends and cousins were on there way to see me so I came up with this big idea that I had not tried yet. To sit up in my bed with my legs hanging over the side. I thought that would look so cool, trying to act like everything was OK & all. I could not even lift my left arm much above my waste because I lost all my muscle and had NO strength left. My right arm was almost totally out of commission/paralysed (coma 11days) but I was going to do it even if it killed me because my friends were coming in to visit me and I wanted them to think I was OK! Well, as I started to put my legs over the side of this bed that seemed 10ft high or at least looked like it. I was so weak and they didn't have the guard rails up yet because they didn't know the kind of person I was. Before I knew it, I got off balance and the next thing I remember, I hit the floor hard because I had no way of catching myself, no muscle. After the pain of the fall subsided, I tried and tried and tried to climb back up into that bed and could not do it for nothing, too weak. So after a few minutes of struggling I wore myself out and just passed out right there on the hard cold tile floor.

As you may know, when you’re in the emergency room all they give you is a little thin gown that is open in the back. Well, when I fell it came off and after struggling trying to get back into bed, I was out cold, lying there on the floor without a stitch of clothing on. My mother had just left for a little bit to run to McDonalds to get a sandwich for me cause I had not eaten in like 2 weeks(feeding tubes and all). The thing that happened was when she got back and walked through that door, seen me lying on the floor passed out but looking just like I had fallen out of bed, possibly hitting my head, knocked unconscious or even worse? No telling what she thought because I would never in a million years, introvert, just fall asleep on a hard, cold, tile floor by accident, especially with no cloths on, in the middle of the hospital with people everywhere! I forgot to tell you, she didn't want to leave me cause I had just come out of the coma and was kinda not all there, if you know what I mean. She made sure and told all the nurses, Make SURE you keep a watch on him cause she knew how I was. As you can imagine the surprise when she walked through that door after rushing back and seen me lying on the floor looking like a dead person. The bad thing for me was when they all heard this piercing scream echoing down the corridors of the hospital. All the nurses came rushing in to see why my mother was screaming.

Well, I was sound asleep and the next thing I knew all these nurses were frantically grabbing me trying to lift me up off the floor into the bed. But me, I was fighting for my life. All I could see was I was down to the bare essentials and all these women were attacking/grabbing me, for what reason I knew not, while I was trying to cover myself, fighting for my life at the same time. Using my one almost paralysed hand/arm trying to cover it but at the same time fighting for my life with my other arm that only worked about half way. Not an easy task under my conditions especially with 6 crazy nurses ambushing me, not knowing their true intentions. Finally after all the commotion, they got me in the bed. I was totally embarrassed to say the least, while the nurses were walking out giggling! Its fun to look back on it now but when I was 19, insecure/very introverted, it wasn't one of my better days!

I forgot to tell you about why I asked for you to please overlook my grammatical errors in this story. Well, I had a front lobal left side brain injury. I was told by a friend doctor of mine that the side/spot of the brain that was hit affects a persons English/grammar and memory, among other things. So they new that I might not have much of that left if any, even if I came out of my coma. After I woke up, I lost all my memory. I still knew who people were but couldn't remember any names of anything like cats or dogs, horses or cows. I knew what they were when they would show me a picture of one, just couldn't remember what you called them. Like the days of the week, months of the year, Christmas, fall, spring, everything.... And my memory, oh, couldn't remember anything after 5 or 10 minutes, so frustrating! If you know me, you know how it turned out but for those who don't, He healed me TOTALLY, went back to college, graduated with a BS and started a business "Praise the Lord"! The Lord reached down and touched me and gave me another chance, that's all I can say, a 1000% miracle, no ifs, ans, buts about it! I was in a wheel chair at first because I was paralysed, my right side, the doctors didn't even know if I'd ever be able to walk again, most accidents like mine they don't! The reason I'm trying to give my testimony is because He loves us SO MUCH and I Love Him and I love you and want you to see this was a 100% pure miracle, undeniable just like in the bible and still happening everyday. You can see the Lords POWER & LOVE, He IS REAL, not some fictional character or a god of mythology but THE 1 AND ONLY, GOD ALMIGHTY who is returning someday to take His children home! He wants to be your Father/Savior and give you a Home that will last forever! Don't miss out on what He has in-store for you thru-out this life and more then anything, don't miss Heaven, a place more than we could possibly fathom!