{"id":81955,"date":"2026-04-06T07:35:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T11:35:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=81955"},"modified":"2026-04-06T08:20:32","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T12:20:32","slug":"afterlife-just-ask-linnie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/afterlife-just-ask-linnie\/","title":{"rendered":"Afterlife? Just Ask Linnie"},"content":{"rendered":"

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It was December of 1994 that Linnie Smith of South Lyon, Michigan, “died” and returned. And when she did, she had an incredible description of Jesus. This we visit, on the day after Resurrection, in our archives from nearly twenty years ago.<\/span><\/p>\n

But it is timeless, relevant always.<\/span><\/p>\n

What Linnie saw,<\/span> as you will note in a moment, should be a warning to atheists: Many dozens\u2014hundreds, indeed thousands\u2014are those who return from death’s door with a similar description. In all the fuss over Christmas, in all the commotion over its denial — in the inconceivable hoopla over taking the Name of Jesus out of His very birthday\u2014<\/i>we can rest assured of one thing: there are great surprises in store for those who deny Him. It doesn’t matter what disbelievers think. Reality is what is real, and near-death experiences are well documented.<\/span><\/p>\n

But let’s get back<\/span> to the story of Linnie from Michigan: In 1994, the Michigan woman was in her early forties and in deep distress due to a badly ailing gall bladder.<\/span><\/p>\n

For years she had suffered digestive maladies and for years Linnie was told it was simply a problem with acid reflux. Incomprehensibly\u2014unaware her bladder was filled with stones that were shredding her organ\u2014doctors kept sending her home, and the same happened as Christmas approached thirteen years ago.<\/span><\/p>\n

Linnie found herself doubled over from pain and yet still turned away\u2014left to suffer at home, unattended by qualified medical personnel.<\/span><\/p>\n

She was at the end of her rope. She was frustrated. So was her family. There was obviously something very wrong with Linnie yet little recourse but the prayerfulness she had learned as an active Christian. “I had no more strength to keep me inside my body,” she recalled to us this week. “I knew I was dying, that I couldn\u2019t do any more to keep ‘me’ in there. All I had was my faith.”<\/span><\/p>\n

That was enough<\/span> to bring the miracle\u2014to bring a glimpse of what we in our limited language call eternity.<\/span><\/p>\n

“As I was lying there in my room, I began to tell the Lord how much I loved Him, how very much I loved Him, and when that happened the room suddenly filled with the sounds of music, bells, birds, voices, and instruments,” Linnie says. “It was the most beautiful music I ever heard. It was so harmonic. I know now why churches have bells!<\/span><\/p>\n

“As that music filled my room, a foggy mist rolled in, and as it did I got farther and farther from myself.\u00a0[scroll for more:]<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n