What's My Story
michael birrell
I remember one experience very vividly. I learnt to swim with goggles and one time when I was diving into the water they came off and I swallowed what seemed like half the pool. I started to go under and paniced.
So when one of the hottest girls in the school came to help me you can guess what I did! I pushed her to the bottom of the pool and tried to stand on her head. I was eventually pulled out, but I remember lying on the concrete shivering and coughing up water thinking what would have happened if I had died? Where would I have gone?
On another occasion after I had received eternal life...
My wife Carole and I were travelling in Europe in 2001 when September 11 happened. The manager at the hotel was frantic and said that the world had gone crazy, they were crashing planes into buildings. We had international phone calls from parents in Australia asking if we were ok and when we were coming home.
We were due to fly out the next day to the UK. The security was incredible and we were delayed two hours while bags and people were searched.
But through it all I was not afraid of dying or uncertain because I knew 100% that even if the plane crashed and I was to die that I would be in hearven with God.