Odell decided to go fishing in the Brazos River along with four friends. While wading upstream, the narrator, who couldn't swim, stepped into a deep hole and began to drown. Struggling and swallowing water, he eventually gave up and experienced an out-of-body vision.
He saw himself from above, then encountered a bright light and Jesus, who communicated through ESP. Jesus reviewed the narrator's life, highlighting both good and bad deeds. Despite the narrator's initial fear and guilt, Jesus reassured him with love and peace. After a journey through a tunnel, the narrator was abruptly pulled back into his body when someone lifted him out of the water, saving his life. The narrator vomited the swallowed water, and though he was sore and shocked, he survived the ordeal