Colton Burpo: The Little Boy Who Has Been In Heaven

"I saw heaven...Jesus was on the right hand side of God ... everything was beautiful,” said Colton Burpo. It sounded like a story dreamed up by a little4-year-old boy but to understand what Colton Burpo said you have to hear what he did.

Colton Burpo (11 years old)

After a burst appendix nearly cost 4-year-old Colton Burpo his life in 2003, his parents were thankful just to have him alive and well. But when he opened up about his brush with death a few months later, they were shocked when he described a very vivid trip to heaven, and spoke of matters about which he had no apparent way of knowing.

Jesus painting by Akiane Kramarik

During an automobile trip, when Sonja Burpo asked him about his memories of being in the hospital, little Colton replied: “Yes, Mommy, I remember — that’s where the angels sang to me.” An answer that Colton made his parents’ jaws drop when he told them about sitting in Jesus’ lap, watching his parents while he lay seemingly near death, and meeting his great-grandfather.

But most poignantly, Colton described meeting a sibling in Heaven — even though he had no way of knowing that his mother had miscarried two years before he was born, since his parents had never told him.

This is how Jesus look like according to Colton

Little Colton nearly didn’t make it: He lay in a hospital bed for 17 days. When he finally rallied, the family rejoiced — but they were floored when, months later, the boy began matter-of-factly describing what he had experienced when he was in between life and death: seeing Jesus dressed in royal purple, meeting John the Baptist, having angels sing to him to ease his anxiety.

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The Burpos believed these were things Colton could have gleaned from his Bible studies. But he also told his mother he saw her talking on the phone in another room while he was having surgery, and saw his father praying in a small room, all while he was seated in Jesus’ lap.

Colton also spoke of meeting a long-departed relative in heaven,“I was just sitting by the Holy Spirit and then this guy comes up to me and says, ‘Are you Todd’s son?’ I say yes, and he says, ‘Well, I’m his grandfather.’

3 year old Colton Burpo

Colton said that everyone in Heaven has wings. He described his great-grandfather “Pops” as being “very big, huge wings, curly hair, a big smile, and he was very nice.”
But the real shocker came when Colton told his mother, “Mommy, I have two sisters.” Sonja told her son that he had to be referring to his oldest sister, Cassie, and his cousin Traci, but he responded: “No, I have two sisters. You had a baby die in your tummy, didn’t you?”

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Colton said her Jesus drawing is exactly  how Jesus looks

When Colton was asked what heaven looked like, the 11-year-old replied, “Well, there’s a lot of color. There are a lot of people and a lot of angels.” ....and Colton revealed that Gabriel the angel sit on the left hand side of God!