My belief in God and Jesus was strengthened when I had my near-death experiences back in 1998. After getting back home around 10:00 PM from driving school bus late in the evening I had something to eat before I went to bed in my son’s bunk bed that was not elevated at the head of the bed for my (GERD) Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease. My sons were in bed with their mother and every time I tried to move them, they would wake up, so I let them sleep with her and to sleep in their bed. After I went to sleep I found myself in another place. It was dark behind me and on each side of me. There was this bright light in front of me. It was so bright that it was reddening into the darkness. I felt as though that I was standing in line with other people, but I couldn't see them. Then this man with shoulder length long hair and a trimmed beard came around in front of the person in front of me and stood on my lift side and wrapped their right arm around me and said in the most loving and serene voice you can ever hear: "It’s not your time, go back, you are a chosen one." I woke up coughing from the food I ate coming up and going back down into my lungs. I know this was Jesus.