Heaven is for Real: A Little Boy's Astounding Story of His Trip to Heaven and Back

by Todd Burpo

The same un-self-conscious honesty that enables a three-year-old to splash joyfully in a rain puddle, or tumble laughing in the grass with a puppy, or point out loudly that you have a booger hanging out of your nose, is what is required to enter heaven.

When they are small, children pray without the showiness that sometimes creeps into our prayers as grown-ups, without that sort of “prayer-ese,” a language meant to appeal more to anyone listening than to God.