Tina Hines miraculously escaped death and, upon awakening, left a disturbing message for her loved ones. Tina and her husband Brian had planned a hike near their Phoenix, Arizona, home last year. Tina had always been in wonderful health, but just as they were about to begin their journey, she fainted.
Brian went into action, crouching alongside his wife, who had gone a deep purple. He revived Tina with CPR. She temporarily recovered consciousness, but Brian had to perform CPR many times before paramedics came.
Tina’s heart stopped six times throughout the scary ambulance ride and subsequent treatment. It was a terrible 27-minute ordeal. Tina was intubated in the ICU and unable to talk, but when she awoke, she signaled for a pen. What she wrote down was both puzzling and profound: “it’s real.”
Tina believes that her message is about a vision of heaven she had while “dead” after having a serious cardiac attack. She described the colors she saw as brilliant, and she remembered seeing a figure standing in front of dark gates with a radiant yellow light behind them, which she thinks to be Jesus.
Tina was unable to speak vocally, but she nodded when her loved ones asked if her experience was genuine. Her tale is inspiring, and I’m grateful to be alive to tell it.
