Fifty Years in Heaven

By Jose Sanchez

This is a fictional story about Thomas, a family man that dies and goes to heaven. The universe has millions of stars and solar systems; good people that go to heaven get to spend eternity living and traveling through out the beautiful planets that God has created. Heaven is a delightful place and the best part is being able to reunite with family and friends. Thomas describes his first 50 years.
In this tale, all good souls are welcome in heaven. God loves all people and welcomes them no matter what they believed on earth. But there is one simple key to open the gate.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Jose Sanchez
• Release date: Nov 11, 2013
• ISBN: 9781310440687

Jose Sanchez

After my brother died of cancer in 1984, I noticed how my family grew closer to GOD. I realized that his death and suffering was not in vain. Later in life I observed how death affected families in opposite ways. In some cases family members blamed GOD for their loss and lost their faith. With my story I hope to help restore the lost faith, that we so much need to get through life. GOD has his reasons to allow some people to die and others to heal. I believe we need to respect and trust his decisions, because nobody loves us more than our FATHER.

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Fifty Years in Heaven

By Jose Sanchez

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Fifty Years in Heaven

This year, the rains have been stronger than usual. It has rained every afternoon for about two weeks now. Driving in the rain is not my favorite thing in the world. I open a bottle of cold Starbuck's vanilla coffee and chug it quickly down my throat to stay awake. The Cuban food I ate for lunch at Versailles on Eight Street is making me wish I could take a nap. I had the pork with white rice, black beans and plantains. It's four in the afternoon and I'm driving home from Miami to Naples; it normally takes me one and a half hours.

My visibility is about 80 percent and I should slow down, but since everybody travels 70 mph and even faster, I do the same and only slow down a little on the few curves. As the rain comes down stronger, visibility is reduced to 50 percent. Some drivers turn on their hazard lights and slow down to about 40 mph. This upsets me because hazard lights should only be used when your car is not moving. I attempt to pass a line of about four cars with their idiot hazards on, but before I make it, the third car, an old Cadillac with a bunch of cane poles hanging out of the window, changes lanes into my own. We collide and my Korean sedan goes sideways and hydroplanes on the wet grass and into the oncoming lanes. I hit the brakes and feel the vibrations of the ABS system under my right foot, but the wet grass and the mud don't forgive us.

I see a black eighteen-wheeler trying to brake and his cargo jackknifes towards me. My whole world spins and I feel goose bumps rise on my arms. Now I feel a pain in my eyes and I see shades of red. The coffee comes out of my nose and the truck's rear end rolls over me. I can taste blood mixed with the black beans. My neck snaps and my whole body is in intense pain. My ears ring and I start to feel very sleepy and peaceful. I think I am dreaming or maybe dead. Thank God I remembered to pay my life insurance. It should be called death insurance, because even when I was alive, the premiums almost killed me.

My name is Thomas, Tommy for short. I live in South West Florida but I was born and raised in Miami. I moved to Naples when my kids became teenagers because my wife Monica and I wanted better schools and safer streets for the family. But work, friends and family always kept me visiting Miami, at least once a month. I met my wife Monica at a soccer game in college. I was the goal keeper and even though we lost the game, she walked into the field and told me, Your saves where incredible. I was so happy that I forgot about the big loss. Meeting her changed my life completely. We fell in love that day and have been together for 22 years.

I find myself floating over the accident. I can see the state troopers arriving at the scene and people running. I bet the troopers will blame this one on me; Stupid bastard fell sleep. One of them is trying to get me out. He is tugging on my arm and I barely feel it. But a few seconds later, I'm no longer there. I am floating and flying over the Florida Everglades. The sun is visible at this altitude and I can control the direction that I travel with my mind. I forget about the accident below me and a feeling of freedom overcomes me.

I start soaring like a jet though the clouds. I'd always dreamt that I could fly and I'm loving it. I cannot see my body but I can see better than ever. I can feel heat and cold but I can tolerate the extreme cold up here without any pain. The smell of fresh air awakens me and gives me incredible energy so I decide to fly around the world just as if I was spinning the globe on Google Earth with my mouse. I see beautiful mountains covered with snow as I'm traveling at sound or light speed. I think I headed south because I see Antarctica. The view is magnificent from up here.

It's cold and quiet as I fly even higher and I'm pretty sure I can now see outer space. After spinning around the Earth a