Van Natta recalled one of the first responders praying for him by name.
“When she prayed me back, my heart starts,” he said. Van Natta said he vividly remembers dying again and said experienced a tunnel leading toward heaven.
“I know people talk about that tunnel with light on the end,” Van Natta said. “I know that I know heaven was on the end of it.”
But as the first responder continued praying for him, Van Natta said he was pulled back into his body again.
“When I came back in that third time, her face was right here,” he said. “She said to me, ‘Mister, you’re on the verge of life and death. What do you have to fight for? Do you have a wife? Do you have kids?’”
God used the woman’s words to remind him of his family, Van Natta believes.
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Van Natta shared that he spent more than a year in the hospital and underwent numerous surgeries. He said that doctors initially told his wife he likely would not survive the first hour.
His wife and friends began praying. “All night long, that group of people said, ‘God, thank you for 30 minutes life,’” he said.
It took months before Van Natta could read or write again. When he finally woke from a medically induced coma and was able to speak, he said the first thing he told his family was about the angels he believes he saw.
“That’s the first thing I told everybody,” he said. “I saw these two huge angels.”
Van Natta said that his is a story of “mercy and grace,” and he knows that God is not only “alive and well” but that he is “still in the miracle business.”
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