Daniel Carter had spent years fighting to stay alive. Three days a week on dialysis. Endless needles. Hospital rooms. Transplant calls that ended in disappointment. He prayed for a kidney, for healing, and for enough time to repair the things in his life he kept promising he would fix tomorrow. Then his heart stopped. The last sound Daniel remembers from earth is the steady beep of a hospital monitor. What comes next changes everything. Daniel believes he encounters the presence of Christ—and for the first time in years, there is no pain, no sickness, no fear, and no need to fight. He has spent his life praying to stay alive, yet when the moment comes to return, he doesn’t want to leave. Then come two words: Not yet. Daniel wakes to doctors celebrating a pulse he isn’t sure he wanted back. Days later, a donor kidney becomes available. But surviving turns out to be only the beginning. Daniel must learn how to live after becoming convinced that Heaven is real. He faces unfinished relationships, forgiveness, grief, survivor’s guilt, public attention, skepticism, the family of the man whose kidney now keeps him alive, and the uncomfortable truth that being given more time does not mean being promised unlimited time. Not Yet is a Christian inspirational novel about faith, mortality, organ donation, grief, second chances, and discovering that the most important part of a miracle may be what happens after it. Because sometimes God doesn’t tell us how much time remains. He simply gives us today.
