(OPINION) Tina Hines of Arizona is letting everyone know that Heaven is real. How can she be so sure? Because she’s been there! In 2018, Tina Hines suffered a heart attack at her home in Arizona.

Her terrified husband, Brian Hines, immediately called 911 to report his wife wasn’t breathing. “I’ve never seen anybody with their eyes rolled back and-and literally starting to turn purple,” he recalled. Brian and the neighbor, Jeff Logas, both tried performing CPR but to no avail.

“In my mind, I knew she was dead. There was nothing,” Jeff said. Even after paramedics arrived and made efforts at resuscitation, Tina remained unresponsive and without a pulse. An ambulance raced Tina Hines of Arizona to the hospital and her husband cried out to God.


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“It was a prayer of desperation. I said, ‘God, take everything from my life if you’ll give me back, Tina,’” Brian recalled. Brian wasn’t alone in the hospital waiting room. Friends and family gathered with him to pray as they waited for an update on Tina’s condition. And God was already sending signs of hope.

As Tammi, the sister of Tina Hines, rushed to the hospital from Los Angeles to Arizona, a sudden feeling of peace came over her. She told Dave, her husband, Tina was going to be okay and moments later, Brian sent a text saying “Tina is alive!” Though unresponsive for more than 20 minutes, doctors finally got Tina’s heart pumping again.

But as they placed her into a medically induced coma, doctors cautioned Brian that the outlook for his wife remained grim. “Most people don’t survive after 5-10 minutes of being without oxygen to the brain,” one doctor said. But as her vitals returned to normal and Tina proved she could breathe on her own, doctors removed her ventilator. As she awoke, Dave held a notebook so she could use a pen to write a message. And on the page, she scribbled “I-T-S-R-E-A-L.” READ MORE