Heaven is for Real

Justin keeps telling me I need to post and up until now I've had nothing to really post. I could ramble on about nothing but that didn't seem like a good first post. I finally bought the book Heaven is for Real after coming close to buying it other times and deciding not to. I thought it would be an enjoyable book but also thought I wouldn't really get much out of it, so I always found another book to buy in its place with the money I had. Its basically a book about a little boys astounding story of his trip to heaven and back. I started reading it this morning, and like I do with most books, I'm reading it pretty quick and am over halfway done. Nothing had really stuck out to me until I got to chapter 17, which is titled Two Sisters. Colton is the little boy who has the trip to heaven and back and the book is written by his father, who is a pastor, named Todd. Todd and his wife Sonja are just sitting around when Colton tells his mom, I have two sisters. Colton does have an older sister named Cassie, but that is it, so Sonja tells Colton that he only has one sister. He tells his mom that no, he does have two sisters and that his mom had a baby die in her tummy, right? Earlier on in the book, we were told that Sonja had a miscarriage before having Colton but they have never told Colton any of this. He's able to describe to his parents what his sister looks like as well as tell them that she doesn't have a name yet. Todd and Sonja miscarried when she was about two months so they didn't know until now if their baby was a girl or a boy. Then he says something that is so sweet; he says that she just can't wait for you and Daddy to get to heaven. They now argue over who is going to get to heaven first to name their baby girl because while they were pregnant with her, they could never agree on a name.

When me and Justin miscarried, we both always wondered whether or not our baby would be in heaven. Like Todd says in the book, the bible never really states whether or not unborn babies go to heaven but we both wanted to believe that our baby would be there. I remember Justin left the hospital room to go call his dad and when he came back he told me about some of the conversation they had. Justin's dad had told him that the baby they had miscarried and our baby were now in heaven together and I don't really remember what all he said, but it was just comforting to try and picture our baby getting to meet its aunt or uncle in heaven.

I'm not one for near death experiences where you see the light and come out of it with crazy stories to tell. Not saying it doesn't happen, I just think people easily either play up what happens or completely make it up, but with this 4 year old boy, there are things he knows about the bible and scripture that he saw in heaven that he was never taught and had no way of knowing. That chapter just made me so happy especially when he told his parents she can't wait for them to get to heaven.

I've never, ever liked the idea of heaven being forever and you never really cease to exist. Weird, I know, but at some point in time I would like to just die. I've been told many times you just can't imagine what heaven is like and once you get there you won't ever wanna leave, and this is all true, but I still have never wanted to "live" forever. I'm at peace with the idea now, more than ever, knowing that in heaven I have a son or daughter who can't wait for me to get there!