
Miracle rider fell for “biggest hoax”
Heidi Barr, now a grandmother, was just a 16-year-old Jewish girl in small town Iowa when she had a horrific riding accident that left her with a fractured pelvis, a broken back, and what should have been a one-way ticket to the grave.
But according to Heidi, what happened next defied science and logic – and everything her atheist father had ever drilled into her.
“My dad always said, ‘There is no God, no Heaven, no Hell – you’re nothing but dust,’” Heidi said on a ‘Jews for Jesus’ video. Religion was forbidden in the Barr household – unless it was being mocked. And Jesus? “The biggest hoax ever,” she recalled her dad saying.
Still, despite her upbringing – and a traumatic childhood that included abuse by a rabbi at age 12 – Heidi told GodReports.com she always had a strange pull toward faith. That pull became a cosmic yank the day the horse she was riding was startled and reared up.
“She flipped over backwards onto me and fell across my body, fracturing my pelvis, breaking my back,” Heidi relates. “Neither of those were fatal injuries; they were bad, but they weren’t fatal. But when she rolled across my chest crushing my chest.”
She didn’t feel pain, but felt pangs of remorse that her little sisters witnessed her death. She also saw Charlie, the owner of the barn, come out and look over her prone body. He was praying.
“I floated out of my body and saw everything from 30 to 40 feet above,” she said. “Then this light appeared, and I turned – and it was Jesus.”
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