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Seeing Heaven



I love catching glimpses of of the sun’s rays coming from behind the clouds like this! In our family, when we see this we say we can see Heaven. Why?? 
When Col was about 3 or 4, he and I were waiting in the car for his dad to come out of the church so that we could get home, likely for more church or house chores. I don’t remember exactly what we were going to be doing, but I do remember feeling rushed and wishing Jerry could hurry up so we could get everything done. As I was there, impatiently waiting, not really paying attention to anything but my own list of things to do, my son’s little voice piped up from the back seat. “Mommy, I see Heaven!” This boy was EXCITED about seeing Heaven - so much the words and his excitement caught me completely off guard and I forgot about the things waiting on me to get done once we finally left there. “What, Bubby? What do you see??” “Look Mommy! Over there!! I see Heaven!!!” - and so I looked in the sky where he was pointing. Huge, bright rays of sunlight streaming out behind a big, fluffy cloud not unlike this one. You could clearly see each ray- like massive ribbons - bursting forth around the curves of that bright white cloud. And I was amazed. My son, in his innocence and childlike faith, believed that those beautiful rays were the lights of Heaven coming through the clouds. Now I know that it was the sun and the clouds and something about the angle of the light hitting the clouds and probably more scientific stuff than my brain can handle— but that day I thought, “what an awesome reminder!” Sometimes we get so caught up in working, working , working that we don’t take time to slow down and be thankful for what we are working towards - that Hope eternal that we have beyond this world. So today, won’t you take time to see - I mean LOOK FOR and SEE - the reminders God has given us of our blessed hope. Let’s see Heaven today!

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