The Miracle on Hammertown Road
Jim Bay had a habit of going on walks each night after a hard day’s work as a landscaper. On the night of November 15th of 2009, however, he fell 14 feet, head-first, into a ravine. Although he was able to make it back up to the road, he was badly injured—he had broken 23 bones, including his skull.
But as he lay by the road, dying, a light appeared to him. It was bright—blindingly so, and yet there was a “softness” to it. It felt “comforting, a though the light were somehow holding me in its arms.”
According to his book, “Miracle on Hammertown Road,” it was the most beautiful thing Jim had ever seen.
But then from that light stepped a figure—God. Jim’s pain ebbed away. His breathing became easier. Thinking that God had come to take him to Heaven, Jim felt a disappointment that he would have to leave his family.
God reassured him, though, that “it was not my time.”
Jim had never been a practicing Christian, and although he believed in a God, he doubted the Bible and those who had killed in its name.
God gently corrected him, saying that “those in power interpret His words for their own benefit.”
With the gentle command to tell others of his experience, God departed, leaving Jim alone with his pain and his wounds, but with the reassurance that he would live on.
Jim made it to safety that night, and after many surgeries, recovered, and now uses his experience to give to others the hope and light he, himself, was given during his brush with death.