Higher than the Birds Above Us

One part of this story involves a set of near death experiences.

Higher Than the Birds Above

It was 4AM on a Saturday when my daughter Alexandra and I couldn’t wait for Papa to be home. Dad was usually on time for outings like this that we had planned but he was running late to pick us up. He had been at a business meeting in Las Vegas. When he showed up Lexi and I were completely ready to go with bags packed and huge smiles on our faces. We needed to get up that early to beat the traffic of the later morning.

We loaded up the truck and I had never seen Lexi so happy. Our trip was planned to go to Seattle to go inside the Space Needle. Lexi got strapped in and I and Papa got buckled too. I reached in my bag for a sports drink when Lexi laughed and said she’s like some too. I smiled and got out a blue one, her favorite. We were so excited to be going to such a monumental site and didn’t have a care in the world.

Mimi said Papa was acting very suspicious in that he was keeping some secret from everyone. She wanted to come along with us but she had to work. An hour and 30 mins down the road Papa suddenly pulled into Fellow’s Diner! Lexi always wanted to go there and was told that place had the absolute BEST cinnamon rolls. We entered the restaurant and under the ceiling had a snow globe set up for Christmas time. I was about to say to Lexi, “Hey you know what that looks..” “I know, daddy.” I had been teaching her about the dome called the firmament that God made that reaches all across this flat realm.

Some old and sort of grizzled man walked up slowly around our table and said, 

“Look up at the masterpiece up there.” And he pointed upwards.

 I smiled and thought to myself he must have known what we were talking about.” I told Lexi that maybe he knew, and maybe he didn’t. The old man winked at me and VANISHED! Papa didn’t see him vanish and didn’t believe the earth had a dome nor that he had vanished when we both told him. He was too busy reading his menu.

We finished eating and both Lexi and I were looking for the old man but we failed to spot him.I like to remember what had happened to me when I was 15 after breaking my arm in wrestling practice so I recited my memory aloud:

It was October of 1998. I was brought to the operating room and they told me to count back from 20. I got to 17 and fell asleep after being IV’d ketamine. I arrived immediately in the dark waters of Gen 1:2 and it was terrible. It was dizzying and I felt sick. I saw a white light above me and I tried to swim to the surface but could not but I didn’t give up. Then a cherubim 😇 came down and carried me into the 💨 wind and to the third heaven. The second half of the experience happened in a vision while I was awake two months later. That’s when I heard the inexpressible things, three angelic word-phrases. Dark waters located in Genesis 1:2, Psalm 18:8-16 and 2nd Corinthians 12 above the firmament.

It was odd that Paul writes that he knew a man in Christ who went to the 3rd heaven and then says he needed to humble himself to the fact. I believe I passed through the firmament and past the dark waters of Gen 1:2 and to the third heaven.”

Lexi loved my story but she still managed to do her famous eye roll everyone hates to admit that they love so much.

Mimi called.

“Hey Papa, how’s your guy’s trip going?” She asked.

“Everything’s good, I’m stuffed. Matt and Lexi had fun, how’s you get-together with Crystal and the kids?”

“All is well. I’m glad you’re having fun. Hunter scored a 100 on his Heliocentric model!”

Lexi and I looked at each other mischievously and I winked at her cause we both knew the correct model is the geocentric AE flat earth model. Lexi loved learning about the stars which are under the dome, about the ancient giant trees which used to be on the earth and that stars were really God’s angels.

I had regrets about once teaching her “about the spin of the earth” and that Santa Clause was real. I decided to tell her the truth once I had discovered the flat earth and so I also wanted to give her the truth about everything to the best of my knowledge. Papa loved watching Star Trek a lot and I always loved watching it with him and dreamt of space adventures. I still like that show and the movies but now I know it’s nothing but fiction- like Superman or The Wizard of Oz.

Lexi still had a long way to go with her studies about the flat earth and the firmament but as she always told me as I always smile with glee: “I believe you Daddy.”

None of us of course had a clue what was about to happen. Papa started the truck and pulled out of the establishment parking lot and to our shock, a semi truck going 50mph suddenly slammed into us. The truck rolled off a cliff and into a lake below us. The truck smashed into the lake. Papa was hit by the airbag and opened the window as he unbuckled himself and Lexi and I did the same. Suddenly I felt time go by very slowly and my mouth filled up with water. I managed to get lexi up and out of there. As for papa and I we accumulated too much water. Then, Papa and I looked transparent and we slipped past the truck and the water in our new forms. It was still slow motion as we saw how sad and humiliated Lexi was to see our lives slip away from her.

I looked around in an underwater area which was dark and horrible. I saw Papa there too and he was just as uncomfortable. It was like my experience in the dark waters when I was under surgery! We both tried to swim as best as we could muster to reach the surface of the water where the immense bright light was but we failed to do so. We attempted to reach the surface with all our might when two cherubims came and dove into the dark waters and lifted us up to the safety and wonders of the light. I asked my dad, “Do you remember where I said I went to during surgery?”

“Yes, Matt I do. Is this where we are?”

“Yeah Dad! Don’t worry we are safe and higher than the birds above the earth!”

“How can this be?”

“ Don’t know dad but God loves us. I Think we will go back home soon.”

We both sensed an invisible barrier above us and when we reached it we saw the same blue sky that I had remembered. Then we woke up on the beach and the two angels were flying away that helped us escape. One of them looked just like the old man in the diner.

The end