Hope

We were driving down the road this week and it was a rainy day but the sun was trying to break through. It was later in the afternoon so it made for a beautiful skyline. Grayish, blackish, blueish clouds with a light blue sky and golden rays flowing out from behind the clouds. Some how the topic of Heaven came up. (Maybe because the sky looked heavenly.) Anyway, Nature Girl wanted to know if PopPop, her grandfather who passed away two years ago, was in his castle looking down from up there in Heaven. The question did not trouble me a bit. We are not afraid of death in this house. Don't get me wrong nobody wants to die but there is a comfort here that if and when someone does pass away and if they have Jesus in their heart there is a castle and a crown waiting for them in Heaven. They get to see God and Jesus face to face and they get to see all of their loved ones again. There will be streets of gold and no tears. There will be singing and angels. The Bible tells us so. My family has had to deal with sickness and death a couple of times in the past couple years. I know there are many who don't like to talk about it and not sure maybe what to say. I have always felt that yes we should be sad, we can be mad, we can feel sorry and sometimes not understand but I want my children to know that this isn't all there is. We have hope in eternal life with Jesus. So yes Nature Girl, PopPop is looking down from his castle in Heaven . . . .