Life: Affirmed.

This woman tells the story of how she jumped out of a plane with a broken parachute, and at the moment she realized she would die, God told her she wouldn’t. And she didn’t.

His Word is true.

There’s a video on the Tubes ofYou and this lovely lady recounts her death … there’s a link somewhere. 

Basically, this woman Nancy Luna was a skydiver, and held all sorts of records for leaping from functional planes.  For this jump, she was attempting another record and her parachute malfunctioned.  She tells it much better but, here …

Back in 1979 Nancy jumped out of a plane over New York in a group of women skydivers.  She was using a parachute that she had some experience with, but in each of her prior uses she had suffered some malfunction.  Previously she managed to clear her parachute lines with relative ease, and this time was not too concerned when the problem repeated itself.

But this time she couldn’t.

During the dive she fought to fix it but ultimately her parachute wound up collapsed above her head – bunched into a “ball of garbage” – as she lay flat on her back and fell through the sky. At some point she flipped over face down and realized that she was only 800 feet above the dirt … 1.5 seconds from impact … in full free fall … and she was going to die. 

Her next thought was In a few seconds, I’m going to meet God.  I’m so honored … who am I, that I get to meet God?  She had forgotten that everyone dies and eventually meets God, but that was the thought filling her mind and her heart and her spirit as she fell.

Then: God told her she was not going to die.  {Isaiah 41:10}  No voice, no words, no sound, but a thought, a direct Thought was put into her head, and it came from outside of her. 

It came from God. 

At that moment all the sensation of air whooshed out, and she stopped in mid-air.

Her eyes hovered 800 feet in the sky, and she watched as her body continued to plummet towards earth at over 100 MPH.

As she stood in the sky she felt the most overwhelming sensation of love … indescribable, beyond human comprehension. 

She knew she was not going to die. 

From the sky, she watched her body impact the ground and land on her back at 100 MPH, bounce up 20 feet, flip, hit the ground on her stomach, bounce again, before finally coming to rest on her right side. 

In the next instant – without concept of time or movement – she moved from the sky to standing next to her dead body, looking into her own lifeless eyes. She recalled that she had fallen from the sky, that this had been her last jump, and that she had died. She even heard other people discussing her death, and the mistakes she made in that final dive.

Suddenly then – again, without concept of time or movement – she was back in her body, alive, and her initial thought was, Wow, it’s a miracle.  I’m not even hurt.  She moved her neck just slightly and suddenly she was paralyzed for three days.

She landed in a field some distance away from the official drop zone.  A boy in a nearby farmhouse saw her falling and called 911, told them to come, told them that someone had died because their parachute didn’t open. 

When the paramedics arrived, she was able to speak to them. 

And now she’s on YouTube, spreading the word.

Or, perhaps, the Word.