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In a remarkable true story of faith and blessings, a mother tells of her sickly young daughter, how she survived a dangerous accident, her visit to Heaven and the inexplicable disappearance of the symptoms of her chronic disease.

Annabel Beam spent most of her childhood in and out of hospitals with a rare and incurable digestive disorder that prevented her from ever living a normal, healthy life. One sunny day when she was able to go outside and play with her sisters, she fell three stories headfirst inside an old, hollowed-out tree, a fall that may well have caused death or paralysis. Implausibly, she survived without a scratch. While unconscious inside the tree, with rescue workers struggling to get to her, she visited heaven. After being released from the hospital, she defied science and was inexplicably cured of her chronic ailment.

MIRACLES FROM HEAVEN will change how we look at the world around us and reinforce our belief in God and the afterlife.

209 pages, Hardcover

First published April 14, 2015

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Profile Image for Matthew.
1,221 reviews9,559 followers
November 22, 2017
This is a deeply spiritual book reflecting on God, Faith, and Miracles. If that is something that does not interest you, you may not want to try this one out. However, if you are Christian or have an open mind when it comes to faith based stories, this is a fascinating story.

The book reads like a combination of the show Mystery Diagnosis and saving Jessica McClure from the well. If you do not remember Mystery Diagnosis, it was a show where someone would have an odd ailment that no one could figure out except one random specialist across the country who is the only one who knows anything about it because only 4 people in the world are affected. If you don’t remember Jessica McClure, in 1987, when she was 18 months old, she fell down a well in her backyard in Texas. It led to a rescue attempt that captivated the world for several days.

Both of these things were fascinating to me, so that makes this story fascinating as well. Even if you are not a Christian and have a hard time stomaching the discussion of faith and miracles, it is a pretty amazing story that is worth checking out.
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1,063 reviews444 followers
January 6, 2020
Annabel e o Poder de Acreditar


Annabel sofre duma doença crónica que a impede de celebrar a Vida como qualquer criança normal.
Porém, num belo dia em que a doença lhe dera alguma folga optou por juntar-se às irmãs numa brincadeira que consistiu em trepar a uma gigantesca arvore centenária cujos ramos já haviam conhecido melhores dias
O resultado foi uma queda vertiginosa:
Um dos ramos cedeu e Annabel foi precipitada no interior oco da arvore, duma altura capaz de matar ou no mínimo paralisar qualquer ser humano.
No entanto, Annabel sobreviveu ilesa e algum tempo depois desse acidente a sua incurável doença auto cura-se!

Para quem não acredita num Deus Pai Todo Poderoso que se entretém a praticar milagres tal magico que tira coelhos duma cartola, explicar o racionalmente inexplicável é uma experiência algo desafiante!

Annabel relatou que naquele tempo em que permaneceu no interior da árvore, falou com Jesus, que lhe terá comunicado que a sua Hora ainda não tinha chegado, pois o seu projecto de vida ainda não fôra concretizado.

Bem...é certamente provável que a mente de Annabel, em modo inconsciente, por efeitos da queda, tenha sido palco de multiplos e variados sonhos!
E...ao que parece, Annabel acreditou neles com "A"!
Será que foi esse "Acreditar" a Magia responsável pela sua Cura repentina?!
Quanto a mim, que não creio em Milagres do Céu , não me ocorre melhor explicação ...👍
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149 reviews
October 8, 2015
My biggest complaint about this book is the switching back and forth constantly from when Annabell was sick, the accident, her being sick and the treatments, inside the tree, more treatments, what little bit she told about what she saw, the treatments, when she was being rescued, all the things that she went through with the illness, getting rescued, etc. Not much was really told on what she saw when she was inside the tree. Had the author wrote about her daughter's illness in the first part of the book and stayed with that instead of jumping around all over the place, the book would have been a better story and then had the accident and the results at the end I would have enjoyed it more but I kept getting confused as to what was going on throughout the entire book.
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Author 5 books1,337 followers
August 19, 2015
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Miracles from Heaven is the inspiring story of a chronically ill little girl whose condition was life-threatening but who found miraculous healing. I'm so grateful to have two relatively healthy kids. I honestly can't imagine the anxiety and heartbreak of having a child with chronic health problems. My husband's little cousin has a rare disease that isn't unlike Annabel's, and my heart breaks every time I see her mom posting on Facebook about another hospitalization or surgery. I can imagine the stress takes a toll on the entire family, and it requires some really strong parents and a strong child to endure for so long. I have so much respect for people in this situation, including the Beams. They did their utmost to make life as normal as possible, not only for Annabel, but also for their two healthy daughters, yet the reality is that their life was anything but normal. I greatly admire them all for their emotional strength and for holding up through a devastating situation with grace and dignity. Even during the parts of the book that really tug at the heartstrings, I felt calm, comforted by the presence of God, and wondered if this is how the author felt or how Annabel felt. Based on certain parts of the story, I would say probably not all the time (after all they're only human), yet somehow Ms. Beam managed to convey that sense of calm throughout.

Then of course, came Annabel's miraculous recovery, which came about in a way that's truly stranger than fiction. As a writer of fiction, I can certainly attest to this, because the scenario is not something that I could have ever come up with in my wildest imaginings. After a particularly difficult bout with her illness that had left her emotionally wrung out, Annabel, who rarely felt up to playing outdoors with her sisters, went out to climb trees. They shinnied up an enormous Cottonwood tree they'd climbed many times before, but this time, the large branch where they liked to sit, started to crack. In an effort to get off the branch quickly, Annabel's sister told her to step inside a hole in the tree which they thought was some kind of depression. Never in a million years would anyone have imagined that the tree was completely hollowed out inside. Little Annabel ended up plummeting thirty feet, head-first to the base of the tree. She was stuck inside for several hours while rescue workers tried to figure out how to get her out. During part of that time, she appeared to be unconscious, and she says that she went to heaven where she talked to Jesus and sat on his lap. Jesus told her it wasn't her time, that he had plans for her and she must go back, but she would be totally fine. Not only did Annabel come out of her experience inside the tree almost entirely unscathed, but after that, the symptoms of her illness began to abate as well until she was completely healed. This of course, if the beauty of God's mysterious ways. We can't always make sense of them, but I can't help wondering if he sometimes does seemingly crazy things like this just to get our attention.

One thing I really admired was how pragmatic the author and her husband, Kevin, were in their approach to Annabel's story of what happened inside the tree. They never pressured her for more details, simply letting her share what she felt like sharing when she felt like sharing it. They never tried to either dissuade or encourage her belief in what occurred. In fact, they themselves weren't entirely sure what to think initially. Soon they started to believe it, but still they were cautious in their optimism that Annabel was getting better. It took more than a year before they were ready to actually start using the word healed to describe what had happened. There are certainly those who expressed some degree of skepticism about what Annabel experienced inside the tree, but as Kevin told an atheist who questioned him about it, the one indisputable fact is that she not only survived a fall that should have left her with severe injuries if not killed her, but she's also now healed of a rare disease that has no cure. Readers can make of that what they choose, but I for one, believe something unexplainable and miraculous happened inside that tree and God had a hand in it. As a little afterthought here, I really like that Christy and Kevin have allowed that tree to stand, despite others encouraging Kevin to cut it down. It would have been a shame to destroy the place where such a beautiful spiritual experience like this occurred.

Every time I pick up a faith-based book, I have a tendency to approach it with a certain degree of trepidation. Even though I am a woman of faith myself, I've read far too many of these types of books, whether fiction or non-fiction, that are preachy or seem to be pushing an agenda that the reader is expected to agree with. I'm thrilled to report that Miracles from Heaven is neither of those things. It's a truly inspiring and spiritually uplifting story that is very gentle in its approach. The writing style is highly engaging, keeping me riveted throughout. But IMHO, the true beauty of the book is that the author doesn't try to force-feed her daughter's story to the reader. She simply presents it as it happened and allows the reader the latitude to draw their own conclusions. Obviously, some will believe it (which I do), while others may not, but she doesn't seem overly concerned or perturbed by that knowledge. That, IMO, is true faith, which in turn is what makes this book so incredibly good and what makes it work. I think people from many different faith traditions could glean encouragement from its gentle message of hope and love. I thoroughly enjoyed reading it and thought that it was a stellar debut book. Ms. Beam certainly has a talent for writing, so I hope that she will consider writing more.

Note: I received a copy of this book from the publisher via GoodReads FirstReads in exchange for an honest review.
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30 reviews8 followers
May 14, 2016
Overall a good book, however I wasn't too keen on the fact that the storyline kept switching from Anna being sick, to falling down the tree, back to her being sick in the hospital, to after the fall, back to the tree etc. It made me very confused and it felt like I was missing pages.
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July 9, 2023
It was an amazing personal true story of Annabel Beam. She suffered of rare and painful stomach disorder, but was miraculously healed.
The story itself was so inspiring, but I was struggling with the narration going back and forth, which honestly was hard for me to follow. There is also a movie, which I liked better.
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247 reviews2 followers
April 27, 2015
Have you met Annabel Beam yet? If you have not, then she has quite the experience to share with you. Annabel spent far too many days, more than a child should have to, in and out of hospitals. The reason? Annabel had a disorder, rare and incurable, that affected her digestive system and prevented living a normal life. Quite frankly, it was hell. Even though science had resolved to give her pills and dismiss her, that was not G-d's intent.

Annabel had an accident one day when she was able to play with her sisters: she fell three stories, headfirst, in a hollow tree. Surprisingly unharmed by the incident, she was touched and healed of her problems, after visiting heaven in her unconscious state. It is not my place to tell the rest of the story, however, and I will leave that to her mother, Christy Beam, who wrote this book. Instead, as a reviewer, I will allow you a glimpse to determine if this book is one you want to read (TL;DR - read the book).

Who wouldn't want to read about a miracle? In fact, miracles have become a popular topic today, not only from Annabel's experience, but also that of the Burpo's (it was made into a movie, if that helps), and others. Miracles defy science, and in a world where every detail of space and the ocean is being mapped, the unknowable and unexplainable is quite attractive. That may be a great reason to read this book, and I am not one to disagree.

Christy writes her tale of being a mother, and believer, with quite the voice. She eloquently tells the story of her daughter, Annabel, with strong references to the Bible. Her storytelling effects are quite impressive, in fact, taking a true tale and drafting it with such a creative stroke of the pen that it feels too much like a work of fiction - not out of unbelievability, but out of the prose she put on paper. Christy's voice is majestic in her retelling, realizing the bigger picture at hand, and G-d's handiwork in even the minute details. Readers will either love or hate the style of this book.

Let me be quite honest with you. I am inspired by the book, and it reminds me of the greatness of HaShem, but it is not my style of reading. My wife, however, would eat it up, being whisked away from our living room and into the descriptive experience that Christy has created.

Who is this book for? If you are reading this review, then you are on the fence on whether or not to read it. If that is the case, then take the jump. This religious biography is receiving high marks from reviewers, and is worth investigating. In my own personal world of disorders and medical incomprehension, this book reminded me that I am not alone, and that perhaps, one day, G-d will grace our family with a miracle as well. That alone is worth the read, but the book delivers far more - inspiration and hope to see beyond the daily hum drum, and remember the G-d of creation is smiling over all of us...

Disclosure: I was contracted to write an honest review in exchange for a reviewer copy of the product. The opinions stated in this review are solely my own.
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1,498 reviews
July 31, 2016
I was a very lucky goodreads first reads winner of this inspirational book. Christy Beam wrote this memoir of her remarkable little girl Annabel. For years their young daughter has been suffering with an incurable digestive disorder at nine years old she was on many medications, numerous surgeries, tons of doctors appointments. her illness meant being in pain always to the point where she once said "I just want to go to heaven so I can be with Jesus" Around Christmas time in 2011 her older sister Abbie and Annabel went out to play during a moment when Anna was feeling a bit better. Climbing an old cottonwood tree.Annabel has a "freak accident" while climbing at least 30 feet high, Annabel falls into the tree and plunges 30 feet head first into the tree. Turns out the tree was hollow.thank goodness her sister Abbie was a witness and ran for help.Anna had fallen to the bottom inside the tree.It was hard to see her and know if she was okay. Six frantic hours later the firefighters were able to bring Annabel to the top.Thank God Annabel had somehow survived the fall.
It was a couple days later when Annabel told her mother she had gone to heaven and saw Jesus. She was very descriptive of what she saw. There were more miracles the Beam family soon found out. Annabel was to show in the next few years. Miracles to her health they never thought they would see.
This is a very nice heartfelt inspirational book. For those who love to read books that are religious and believe in Miracles, they will love this. I do not want to give too may details or spoilers. but this is a real heartwarming book.
I sent this book on to a relative who needs to read about a miracle right now. I found this uplifting myself.

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1,131 reviews228 followers
May 4, 2016
A classificação não tem (quase) nada a ver com o facto de eu acreditar ou não em Deus mas sim com a escrita e a estrutura do livro que não funcionaram para mim. O livro alterna-se entre o passado e o presente, o antes sendo vários momentos desde o momento em que está doente, o momento do acidente, os tratamentos, o episódio do que viu, mais diagnósticos e tratamentos etc e o presente, os dias de hoje. Não há uma linha cronológica como por exemplo acontece na adaptação cinematográfica que estreia amanhã (5 de Maio de 2016) com o título 'O nosso Milagre' em Portugal.
A adaptação aí sim, já segue uma linha desde que se descobre que a Anna está doente até aos dias de hoje e aí é muito mais fácil entender como tudo aconteceu. O filme é muito melhor que o livro, até a convencer que tudo isto aconteceu. A diferenças são pouquíssimas.
Quanto ao acreditar no milagre, sou céptica nestas coisas e acho que se uma criança durante 4 anos sofreu sem parar de uma doença e foi preciso cair de uma altura de 10 metros para "Deus" curá-la, então que todos que tenham males consigam chegar ao Céu e voltarem, pois é essa a lógica do livro e a mensagem passada através deste "Milagres do Céu". Para mim não faz sentido mas cada um acredita naquilo que quer.
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Author 1 book41 followers
June 28, 2015
I was approached by this book’s publicist to read and review it (with absolutely no compensation or pressure for a good review), and while I was somewhat skeptical of another near-death testimony, especially that of a child, I have come to trust this publicist’s recommendations. Indeed, this book did not disappoint. Not only was it a compelling and dramatic story—told simply and without embellishment by the little girl’s mother—it was also spiritually uplifting in its testament to faith and hope.

The bare bones of the story began with the Beamer family’s middle child, Annabel, and her incurable, life-threatening digestive disorder that had them traveling to specialists and far-away treatment centers. It was breaking both their hearts and their pocketbooks, testing their faith along the way with heartache, discouragement, and despair. Annabel’s health issues had begun when she was only five. By age 9, in a hospital bed in Boston, she quietly and calmly whispered to her mother, “Mommy, I just want to die and go to Heaven and be with Jesus where there’s no pain.” As a mother, I was completely pulled into the story and the challenges this family faced.

Annabel rallied from this low point and even had enough energy when she got home to be coaxed by her older sister to climb the old cottonwood tree in the yard, long a favorite activity of the children. They had done it hundreds of times without mishap. This time, however, alarmed by the cracking sound of the limb they were on, Annabel scrambled back towards the trunk, only to fall three stories, head first, into the hollow center of the tree.

To have survived the fall without death, injury, or paralysis was the first miracle. Annabel said she was never alone in that dark hole. She visited Heaven and Jesus told her it was not her time to come home to Heaven. This experience was the second miracle. The third miracle was Annabel’s remarkable healing that occurred after she was rescued.

At first I was annoyed by the chronological jumping back and forth from past to present, but in retrospect, it was an effective way to keep the momentum moving forward without ever getting too bogged down in the depressing details of Annabel’s medical history.

I've read quite a few near-death-experience stories, and some were more plausible than others. In spite of my skepticism, this story rang true, and I found it both gripping and inspiring.
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23 reviews2 followers
March 18, 2016
I read this book while I was going through a difficult time and felt completely defeated. While reading it started to get my faith back and feel confident again that God has a plan for me even if the path there might be difficult. Thank you for sharing this story. It is truly one of God's miracles.
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1,239 reviews120 followers
April 20, 2016
My rating does not have anything to do with the painful story and finding hope in God. Rather it was how this story was written, it was very cheesy with full of cliches that I heard all before. I should have watched the movie first, something that is rare for me to do. However I did not really feel empathetic to the characters, they were forgot about as soon as I turned the page. They just did not make any lasting impression on me.

From the opening prologue to the page I stopped reading, it was tedious. Nothing about the story was captivating, also the writing style was very elementary. I am sure that the movie probably could make this story come to life, sadly the book did not convey any emotion from me. It just read like a bad manuscript that failed to be edited, nothing about it made me continue to read how it ended. Please understand me that I am not suggesting that the subject matter of the story was boring, just HOW the story was told..BIG DIFFERENCE.

Oh well it could have better with more characterization and consistency.

Another book that bites the dust..

NEXT!
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908 reviews1,707 followers
May 24, 2020
This book is so good! It made me laugh and cry (mostly cry)! A great book that shows the power of God!
When Anna shares what it was like to go to heaven and when she was healed miraculously, I was amazed beyond words.
This book made me feel: 😊😨😱😲😭🙌
I have read this book 3 or 4 times cover to cover and it never ceases to amaze me!

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316 reviews
May 23, 2016
This book was amazing! I love it! It was so engrossing and inspiring! Everyone should read this book. Just one minor complaint that I have with many books is the jumping around in time and telling events out of order.
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207 reviews13 followers
December 4, 2016
Very inspirational book. After reading this book I totally believe that some children and adults actually die, go to heaven and then are sent back to do something extraordinary with their lives here on Earth.
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1,339 reviews130 followers
August 7, 2018
I wanted to read this book since i am myself a girl that got sick with an illness that nobody really knew that what i was having or where it was coming from... sadly i was not miraculously healed as this lucky girl in this story.

so now lets get into the book.

There are so many parts of this book that i thing are very important to have in a book.

It shares the struggles of a family that has a sick child/sibling.
It shares both the side of the sick child as well as the side of the parents and the healthy siblings. The struggles and hardships as well as the wonders and beautiful moments an illness can bring into a family.
It shares the struggles of a chronic sick person that struggles to want to go on because pain is hard.
And if nothing else, this book did that perfectly.
It really shows that pain wears you down.
If you are always in pain you learn to deal, you learn to survive, you learn to go on through the pain, pretend that its okay.
BUT that is hard. Its work. And there are days its impossible. There are days where the pain takes over and its just so hard to pretend, so hard to play happy and were you just want to be over and yes, where you want to die.
Because you know what?
If you are in constant pain very SECOND of every DAY for YEARS?
Dying isn't that scary anymore because at least one thing is pretty clear... that painful body you are currently trapped in? Thats no longer alive to feel that pain.

No matter what age, if you are in pain, dead it something you think about.
I know what i am talking about.
I have been in constant daily pain (and if you don't know what constant means, thats every freaking second of every day!) since i was 12 years old.

I really liked that Beam shared the parts where her daughter told her that she was going to die and that that was okay. Because to/for me that little moment clearly showed me that this was really someone talking from experience of someone that lived with pain for a good while!

I have read a good amount of book that share chronic pain/illness stories. And quiet a few of them say that they "always" suffered and than go on talking about all the things they did without problems or how they never understand how anyone can even think about wanting to die in their situation.
And that is okay, but not realistic if you are actually someone that is/has been really sick.

Illness is no joke!
Pain is not something you "get over"!
It wears you to the ground and strips you into nothing!


That might sound dramatic, and might be something you don't understand at all.
Be thankful for that!

All i am saying is that the talk about wanting to die or being ready to die adds the realness and honesty to this book that i have not yet experience in many others and made me appreciate what this author did a lot more!

So yes, this book really showcased the struggles of a painful illness and the effects it has in a real and honest and realistic way!

And i loved that this is a true story of a sick child getting healthy.

And sure its in a way that way to few people that are in similar situations in some form get to experience as well, but at least it shares a way that one person got better and that is something!


Now i personally don't care if you call it god, religion or just misdiagnosis that was "scared" out of the body by a miracle survival after a fall that in itself should have been deadly. Call it was what you want. It clearly is a miracle that this girl not only survived but survived utterly healthy.

And while this book does mention a lot of religion, god and jesus, its not an actual religious book!

So if you are not religious but still interested in this book?
Give it a try!
It does not shove religion and their believe in your face, since that is not what this book is about!



And because apparently i can not read one book without noticing something that really bothers me quiet a bit and i just have to mention in my review, lets get to that part now:

The way this book is written is not that great or at least it wasn't to me personally, for every specific reasons!

We switch back and forth between the time the girl is sick and the time she is stuck in the tree as well as the time she is no longer sick.
Which would be perfectly fine IF the Beam wouldn't constantly repeat things for no good reason at all.
For example Beam talks about very early on in the book how she talked with her daughter how she experience heaven and states the answer of the girl, talking about the day looking back while we are in a section of the book that is in the "now", when the girl is healthy and survived.

Between 20 to 40 pages later we get basically the exact conversation again, this time from the time right after it happened, so in a "sightly in the past" section of the book.

Which is fine.

But than around the same amount of pages later yet again, we get yet again.

Sadly that does not happen just once or twice but way to often.

Now do understand that this book is a non-fiction, its real life, its clearly emotional and hard times that this mother writes about. So i understand why some parts are repeated. Especially ones that are clearly important turning points or just general moments that are important for either the author herself or her family in general.

BUT why is it necessary to share a specific moment that you want to share in "real time" later on in the book before it happens? Why can't we just get the past moments in the past section?

I especially didn't understand it since a lot of the time in the "Past" sections it felt like the author wanted to share those bigger moments when something was happening as ... well i don't want to say a surprise but in a way that is exactly what it felt like. As something they all didn't see coming so she wanted to share it that way with the reader.


Which again would be fine if the book would have been actually written in a way that made it possible to be surprised by those moments in the book.
I would have loved to be surprised to read about the exact moment that the girl talked about her experience in the tree, for example. Or how they found out that she was completely healed in every way!

But we already heard that part at least three times before we are actually in the part of the book where the girl is in the tree to begin with... (which is one of the reasons i don't feel as if those parts would be spoiling the book since it is repeated in the summary, right at the beginning of the book and a handful of times later one as well)
You guys understand what i am trying to say, i hope.



I think this book tells an important story.

Miracles come in many different and completely unexplainable ways.


And it is a beautiful story about a girl that clearly is much happier now and a mother that shares a lot of hard times and a huge amount of struggles very honestly and openly in a way that is very brave.


So if you are interested in this book.
Give it a try.
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271 reviews94 followers
May 8, 2016
Originally gave this three stars, but in thinking more about it, it doesn't deserve more than two. I'd give it 2.5 but I don't have that option. This is probably a good book for the audience it was intended for, but Beam had this amazing story about her child having an out-of-body experience and being healed from a debilitating illness, and RATHER than tell her daughter's story, she fills more than 200 pages with scripture-quoting and musings about her own feelings and how much she loves her husband and her family and how great her friends and church are. Also, I noticed echoes of "Heaven is for Real," (which was a pretty good book, although in the same Christian vein as this one) particularly in the very brief mentions of her child's spiritual experience where she talked about seeing an older departed relative who looked younger and seeing a sibling she'd never met b/c the child had been lost due to miscarriage. The writing isn't bad, but it's syrupy, especially when she keeps referring to herself as a "mommy."
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1,916 reviews48 followers
December 31, 2015
An inspiring, true story regarding the extraordinary adventure of a child with a chronic disease... As she falls inside a huge tree, head down, everyone expects the worth regarding her condition. But miracles happen!

Maria Carmo,

Lisbon, 31rst December 2015.
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93 reviews3 followers
February 20, 2016
I absolutely loved this book! I loved that it gave insight into a rare disorder and the tough journey that the whole family had to go through. The book was written in a way that makes it easy for the reader to understand and connect with the story.
Profile Image for June Daniels.
130 reviews
March 16, 2016
A few pages of the account in Heaven make this book a misrepresentation of an "afterlife" story. Don't waste your time if you are looking for information on how a person has seen a glimpse of the afterlife.
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6 reviews49 followers
July 28, 2016
Beautifully written

I loved this story. It comes straight from the heart. An easy read that will make you reach for a tissue or two.
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197 reviews
September 26, 2017
Es un testimonio muy lindo sobre la misericordia de Dios. Es una historia que confirma que el sol sale para todos; y que Dios nos ama a todos . Existe ese sentimiento de que la forma en que se presenta la historia (pasado_presente) puede perder al lector ...me paso un par de veces.

El otro elemento es que evidentemente esta es una familia baustista del sur de Texas ; con costumbres bien enraizadas; su círculo de amigos realmente es muy fuerte entre los miembros de la Iglesia y se hacen presente cuando se necesita... es algo muy lindo de rescatar.
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Author 85 books350 followers
January 28, 2018
If you haven't read this story or watched the movie, you are definitely missing out. I have to say the movie was well done, but nothing beats a book. Christy Beam tells the story of her daughter Annabel Beam. A child who has a rare condition that is killing her. For me the story is a reminder to me of what the difference is between good doctors and bad doctors and good people and bad people, Kudo's to Mrs. Beam for fighting for her daughter and seeking help. That is just the beginning of the story though and readers are in for a heart touching, spiritual story that they won't forget. This is a story of love, family and strength before it is a story of faith.
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83 reviews1 follower
March 12, 2017
This was a very hard book for me to read.

I saw the movie when it first came out in the theaters. A few short weeks later, I took my oldest daughter to see it. Two weeks after seeing this movie, we were living out our own "Miracles From Heaven" as my daughter had to be life-flighted to Children's Hospital for emergency brain surgery.

It was only just a few weeks ago that I was able to watch the movie again -- and then read the book. The parallels between the Beam's story and ours was so striking....I often found myself underlining parts of the book that hit on exactly what I was feeling during our daughter's cancer journey.

I loved every word of this book. My only complaint was how it jumped around a lot. I had kind of expected it to start at the beginning -- with Anna's illness. But that story was mixed in with her story of falling into the tree and then to her telling about Heaven, then back to her illness.

Jumping around aside, this was a compelling and dramatic story. It was also spiritually uplifting in its testament to faith and hope. I highly recommend it!
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December 8, 2015
Para começar o mês de Dezembro, decidi enveredar por este livro gentilmente cedido pela Editorial Presença para leitura e opinião ao blogue. Queria ler algo leve, mas que ao mesmo tempo alcançasse o meu coração, e foi exactamente isso que encontrei.

Milagres do Céu é uma história verídica contada por Christy Beam, a mãe de Annabel, uma menina de 9 anos com uma doença rara e fatal do aparelho digestivo. Não leio com muita frequência este tipo de livros, no entanto, a verdade é que consigo tirar o chapéu a Christy Beam, porque de facto é uma história que merecia ser contada.

No entanto, creio que não será uma leitura adequada para todas as pessoas. Uma das temáticas mais abordadas ao longo da obra é a fé e o acreditar em Deus e Jesus. E, a verdade, é que nos dias de hoje, nem todas as pessoas acreditam. No entanto, isso não quer dizer que não possam gostar da história, penso que pode é não ser exactamente esta a leitura que procuram. Apesar disto, é sem dúvida uma história bonita a ler principalmente nesta época – o Natal!

É um livro pequeno, com 184 páginas, de leitura rápida e fácil e, como tal, não quero relatar aqui tudo o que acontece. Posso apenas dizer que estamos perante o relato de uma mãe, com sentimentos como o amor, a tristeza, a frustração, e finalmente a fé – a fé de que os milagres existem e que merecem ser contados.

É verdade que a vida de cada um de nós pode por vezes estar repleta de obstáculos, desilusões e sofrimentos, mas se há algo que este livro nos ensina é que não estamos sozinhos. E foi ao longo deste que marquei pela primeira vez uma página com um postit, pois encontrei uma descrição que ainda não tinha encontrado em nenhum livro. É muito difícil estar triste e num beco sem saída, mas também é muito difícil para quem está do lado de fora vê-lo e até lidar com isso. Assim, deixo aqui este excerto que de certa forma tocou o meu coração.

“Tudo isto me permitiu pensar de outro modo sobre a minha própria luta contra a depressão, um estado que se assemelha muito à sensação de cair num buraco fundo e escuro de onde não se consegue sair por mais que se arranhem as paredes. As pessoas que nos amam estão mesmo ao nosso lado – elas podem amparar-nos e tocar-nos, e querem fazê-lo, estão de facto desesperadas por comunicar connosco -, mas nós estamos fechados no interior de uma carapaça impenetrável, onde parece não existir luz, nem ar, nem uma saída, e enrolamo-nos numa pequena bola onde permanecemos fechados. Não há forma de os nossos entes queridos saberem o que se passa connosco nem como compreendermos o inferno que eles enfrentam ao lutarem por nos salvar.”

Pouco mais posso dizer :), apenas que talvez os milagres existam, como existiram para Christy Beam!


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