Note from Randy: I continue to be humbled and amazed at the ways that God has used the Heaven book. As our ministry celebrates the 20th anniversary of the book’s release, we’re grateful for the notes we’ve received from readers sharing how the book has impacted their lives. Here are just a few of them. (See also this interview I did about the book’s anniversary.)

Great Peace
Thank you, Randy, for this book. Our daughter left us eight years ago, and I clung to this book every day for months. It brought me so much peace.

Renewed Faith
I’m about in the middle of reading your book Heaven. My walk was not in a good place. I couldn’t find my way into a better state of mind. I started reading your book, and it’s put everything in perspective. I didn’t even realize that I had some wrong beliefs about Heaven. It’s renewed my faith.

Hope in Grief
Today is the nineteenth anniversary of the day our four-year-old flew to the arms of Jesus. Your book Heaven was a lifeline to me in the early days. Knowing where she is and how she is made so much difference in both my and my husband’s grief journey. The tears still fall, and I will not be whole until that day when we are reunited, but the promise of Heaven is everything to me.

Eternal Perspective
After losing my fourteen-year-old to suicide three years ago, I questioned many things, including my faith. Your book Heaven, and the Bible, of course, are the two things that brought me great comfort each day. Suicide will never make sense, but I am learning to trust that Jesus knows and sees ALL things, and this is all I need to know while I am on this earth.

Comfort in Loss
I have almost devoured Heaven, reading it over and over. I learned about the book shortly after my husband of 54 years went to be with Jesus, and the comfort it brought me was more than I could ever put in words.

Motivated Faith
Besides the Bible, of course, Heaven is one of my two favorite Christian books, along with The Pursuit of Holiness, and made me so much more excited about my faith. It motivates me all the more to be about the Father’s business in the present.

Courage to Face Death
Your book Heaven gave me the courage to look at the imminent loss of both of my parents while I saw their decline side-by-side. It gave me comfort again when they passed into Heaven, and still gives me hope and anticipation for when that time comes for me and other loved ones.

Strength in Suffering
I read your book Heaven while recovering from a knee fracture, and exactly one year later, my husband got a cancer diagnosis. Six months later, he passed. I would’ve been a puddle on the floor if I hadn’t spent so much time in the Word and learning about Heaven prior. Jesus was preparing me.

Preparation for Eternity
My dad was on hospice for nineteen months. He read your book Heaven three times before he went there. I asked him, "Why read it again?" He said that when he plans a trip, he learns all that he can about where he is going. This (along with reading his Bible) was his prep for Heaven! It has greatly encouraged me, too.

An Invitation from Eternal Perspective Ministries

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