Promised by Heaven: A Doctor's Return from the Afterlife to a Destiny of Love and Healing

by Mary Helen Hensley

A moving and inspirational memoir of love, loss, and renewal, Promised by Heaven tells the amazing story of how one woman’s near-death experience and glimpse of heaven led her to discover her gifts of healing and share them with the world.In December of 1991, Mary Helen Hensley was involved in a car accident that changed her life forever. Upon impact, traveling at more than seventy-five miles per hour, she felt time stall and temporarily left her body. In those moments, Mary Helen was consumed with a sudden clarity. She realized she had the choice to either remain in her body or exit from the earth, allowing the remainder of the scene to unfold without feeling any pain. She chose to depart from her body—and enter heaven. In heaven, Mary Helen was welcomed by two angels who walked her through the place of light and encouraged her to go back to earth and help others. When she returned to earth, Mary Helen was suddenly struck with a desire to live a life of service and quickly set out on a journey into metaphysical healing. Her adventures took her to Ireland, where she went on to become a chiropractor, find love and new friendships, become a mother, and help numerous people with her gifts of communicating with the dead and seeing into the future. Promised by Heaven is a remarkable spiritual journey that questions everything we understand to be true. Describing in great detail her experience in heaven, meeting angels, and returning to earth a changed woman, Mary Helen Hensley offers an unforgettable account of her path to find her true calling.

Genres: Spirituality, Nonfiction

322 pages, Kindle Edition

First published September 8, 2015

Reviews

[Donna · Rating 5 out of 5]

I just finished this very moving, uplifting story of a near death experience after a car crash. This was well written and the kind of story that keeps you thinking and wondering even after you have completed the book. I highly recommend this book!

[Tara · Rating 2 out of 5]

This book started out great and slowly declined from there. I found myself struggling to finish this and there was so much of the book dedicated to her chiropractic studies/career path that I felt the book was more about that than the afterlife at all. She didn't focus on the aspects of the book that initially drew me to it. For that reason, it quickly went on my "started by didn't finish yet (?)" list.

I'd highly recommend "The Light Between Us" by Laura Lynne Jackson if you're looking for a book that is tweaked more in the afterlife direction.

[Janet · Rating 5 out of 5]

I couldn't put this book down! I found her story very interesting and her ability to heal and see a person's ailments very astounding. A wonderful quick read for anyone open to other ideas.

[Gael · Rating 5 out of 5]

Full disclosure: I am friends with the author's mother, a very vivacious and sweet Southern lady and a Christian of the Baptist variety. And my husband and I were friends with her late father, although we didn't know MH when she was growing up. I would have dismissed the reincarnation stuff out of hand if I didn't know her background. I don't discuss it at my church (an ecumenical parish of Presbyterian, Lutheran, and Episcopal denominations), however, because everything I've ever heard or read in Christian circles assumes that we have only one go-round on this planet. But I'm fairly knowledgeable about the Bible, and no one in the Hebrew scriptures (Old Testament) believed in the kind of heaven Christians talk about today (Sheol was a place more like Hades; the dead were a "witless psychic sediment," to quote C. S. Lewis). In the New Testament, the only mention of heaven is Jesus on the cross telling the repentant thief that "today you will be with me in Paradise." The rest of the NT talks about our own bodily resurrection, not "going to heaven." I'm not sure reincarnation is really contradictory to the Bible. I find some comfort thinking that I might have actually chosen my particular struggles and wondering what in the h*** I'm supposed to be learning. I would welcome an opportunity to discuss this with the author.

[Dawn · Rating 2 out of 5]

When none of your dates are congruent with the story you are telling, all of my alarm bells go off. When it happens more than once ... what else is also "off"?

It's a moderately interesting read, but Mary Helen seems really impressed with Mary Helen.

[Sue Summerill · Rating 4 out of 5]

Not sure!

I thought this book would be good,but it was not what I expected. I do not believe in reincarnation.I cannot rate this book fairly as I could not finish it. My beliefs are so much different than the authors.

[Amanda · Rating 5 out of 5]

A very interesting memoir of the author's metaphysical life, clairvoyance, near-death experience, and journey to healing others both spiritually and physically. Her daughters also share her gifts.

[Rick Lott · Rating 3 out of 5]

Hard for me to believe that of the 8 billion people on earth so few share these experiences.

[Patty · Rating 4 out of 5]

I really enjoyed reading this book. The story of the authors life is
really captivating. (The only issue I had was her many references to
reincarnation. As a Christian, that goes against everything I have ever been taught and believe.)

[Nathaniel · Rating 4 out of 5]

A supernatural page turner. I highly recommend. You go along for the ride.

[Michael Schmidt · Rating 5 out of 5]

Inspiration for the soul...

Dr. Mary Helen Hensley takes you on an uplifting exploration of the Divine spirits who are working together to help us on our journey Home.

[Jeryl Barganski · Rating 5 out of 5]

Has become one of my favorites.