Heaven Is For Real

It is obvious that I have been thinking more about heaven lately.  Nick's cousin, Sarah-Beth, sent me a book "Heaven Is For Real."  (Thanks Sarah-Beth!)  The book is about a little boys experience when he visited heaven during an emergency surgery.  It is supposibly a true story.  At first, I had a difficult time reading it.  Nick and I are not really that religious and it is somewhat far feached... I mean... he had an out of body experience where he went to Heaven, met his miscarried sister, his grandpa and sat in Jesus' lap?

But I kept reading thinking that there must be some reason she sent this.  I must be able to find some kind of hope in a book that has comforted millions.  So I read on...luckily... it is fairly short and easy reading.

And the best part came at the very end.  It took them a few years to get the entire story from him and even longer for them to write the book and find a publisher.  So when they had done all that and were finally coming up with a name for the book, they asked him what he wanted people to know about his trip to heaven.  He said "that Heaven is for real."

It is one of the last lines in the book and it hit me. This was the thing I was looking for.  Funny that it is the title of the book but it took me the whole thing to figure it out.  Whether or not I believe all the stuff in the middle, that is what I needed to take away from it.  That heaven is for real and that Olivia is there.  While I hope that I have quite a long time here, I know that when it comes to my last days here I will not be scared or fearful the way I might have been before.  I will know that I am getting ready to see my little girl again and I will have an extra special angel waiting for me.