The Remarkable Story

The Remarkable Story of a Tragic Event That Lead To a Young Girl's Miraculous Journey of Healing
By Dan Wooding, Founder of ASSIST and the ASSIST News Service
BURLESON, TX (ANS – April 24, 2015) -- For Christy and Kevin Beam, faith meant putting one foot in front of the other as they lived life in the shadow of their middle daughter Annabel's devastating chronic illnesses.
Diagnosed with two incurable, life-threatening digestive conditions, Pseudo-Obstruction Motility Disorder and Antral Hypomotility Disorder, nine-year old Anna persevered through years of physical agony, countless hospital visits across the country, invasive testing and treatments, and prayed for even just one day of relief from her debilitating pain.
However, according to a news release monitored by the ASSIST News Service, one day after a tragic, near death experience, Anna and her family's prayers were answered, and their lives were changed forever.
In MIRACLES FROM HEAVEN: A Little Girl, Her Journey to Heaven, and Her Amazing Story of Healing Hachette Books, April 14, 2015), Christy tells the remarkable true story of her sickly young daughter, how she survived a dangerous accident, her journey to Heaven, and the inexplicable disappearance of the symptoms of her chronic disease.
One day in late December 2011, at home in Burleson, Texas, Anna felt well enough to play outside with her sisters on the family ranch. In a terrifying accident, Anna fell thirty feet, headfirst, inside a hollowed-out cottonwood tree. Miraculously, Anna was rescued from the tree unharmed, and even more astoundingly, the
symptoms of her chronic illnesses began to abate the second she came out of the tree.
Three years after the accident, Anna is inexplicably cured of her chronic ailments; entirely symptom-and medicine-free.
In the days following her rescue, Annabel quietly shared a story with her parents of her “visit to Heaven” while inside the tree, and being guided out of the hollow darkness into the light by a guardian angel.
“Although many could dismiss this as a dream or Anna's state of deliria after such a traumatic event, when Anna was airlifted to a nearby hospital in stable condition with no internal damage, broken bones, brain injury, and her distended tummy beginning to subside, it became clear that something inexplicable-something simply miraculous-happened within the depths of the tree,” said the news release.
“Although many doctors and specialists would call Anna's full recovery a highly improbable statistical deviation, the Beams and their close-knit community of supportive friends and family call this defiance of science a miracle. This story is more than a testimony of the existence of Heaven, or even an unfathomable medical anomaly. It is a story of love, family, and an unwavering example of faith in
the face of life's most difficult circumstances.”
The release added, “MIRACLES FROM HEAVEN will change how you look at the world around you and remind you that beyond the scope of human control, God is always at work here on Earth.”
The story is soon to be turned into a Major Motion Picture by Bishop T.D. Jakes, Joe Roth, and Devon Franklin-The Sony Producing Team Behind “Heaven Is For Real.”
About the author:
Christy Wilson Beam was born and raised in Abilene, Texas. She graduated from Hardin Simmons University with a degree in Education and specialization in Reading. Christy now resides near Burleson, Texas with her husband and their three daughters.
For more information on MIRACLES FROM HEAVEN or to schedule an interview with Christy Beam, please contact Michelle Aielli at (212) 364-1223 or Michelle.Aielli@hbgusa.com.
Photo captions: 1) Book cover. 2) Annabel (Anna) with her father (Photo: Ryan Johnson).
Dan Wooding, 74, is an award-winning journalist who was born in Nigeria of British missionary parents, now living in Southern California with his wife Norma, to whom he has been married for more than 53 years. They have two sons, Andrew and Peter, and six grandchildren who all live in the UK. He is the founder and international director of ASSIST (Aid to Special Saints in Strategic Times) and the ASSIST News Service (ANS) and he hosts the weekly "Front Page Radio" show on the KWVE Radio Network in Southern California and which is also carried throughout the United States and around the world. He is the author of some 45 books, the latest of which is a novel about the life of Jesus through the eyes of his mother called "Mary: My Story from Bethlehem to Calvary". For more information, please go to http://marythebook.com/, where you can find details of how to order the book.
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