![]() ![]() But that hard reality hardly inhibits Todd’s goodhearted faith in God’s provision. Neither gig is quite keeping up with the bills, his faithful and loving wife, Sonja, regularly informs him. When we first meet him, Todd is a rock-steady man of faith, splitting his vocational time between pastoring Crossroads Wesleyan Church in rural Imperial, Neb., and installing garage doors. ![]() Now with the help of Braveheart screenwriter and Secretariat director Randall Wallace, that same tale has come to the big screen. ![]() Because not only does Colton live, but he comes back from the brink talking about an unexpected thing that happened during his surgery: a round trip to paradise.Ĭolton’s memoir of sorts became a best-seller as Todd Burpo recounted the boy’s adventure in 2010’s nonfiction tome, Heaven Is for Real: A Little Boy’s Astounding Story of His Trip to Heaven and Back. And it might well be said that it’s an effective prayer. That’s the desperate, angry prayer Todd Burpo flings heavenward when his four-year-old, Colton, lies in a hospital bed, his life hanging in the balance as surgeons operate following a ruptured appendix. You’re gonna take my boy? Don’t you take my son. ![]()
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