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I was at a wrap party following the closing of a show...
My first thought was that I was looking up at the bluest sky and fluffiest white clouds I had ever seen...
I had had attacks before and always recovered, this time I could tell I wasn't...
When I was three years old I fell out of an open window from the fourth floor...
My friend and I set out to enjoy a day of tubing in the river...
Convinced that I would soon die, I had been terrified of going to sleep, and had not slept for more than two days, I lost all hope, and started to drift off very peacefully...
It was a very hot and sunny day...
The warm and commanding voice of Christ asked me one simple question, 'Denver, are you prepared to leave...
I was at the beach...
I was on vacation with my mother, father, a friend of mine and her mother in Kentucky...
I had to run into the sea to rescue my (profoundly deaf) daughter...
I was standing on a pier four inches above a body of water...
