Heaven is “For Really-Real”

Recently I read, Heaven is for Real by Todd Burpo. Love, LOVE, LOVE this book! Even if you are not a believer in Heaven or an afterlife, this is a must read. It’s sweet, simple, short and leaves you full of hope–hope in death and in life.

This little boy has a near death experience and comes back telling how he got to hang out with Jesus up in heaven for a bit. Very cool. He got to meet the grandfather he had never met and the sister he never knew he had! Even cooler!

I finished reading it while laying on the beach in Gulf Shores, AL…try reading a book about heaven then watching a sunset on the beach…wow. Since then I  have been increasingly thinking  more and more about Heaven. Who will I see? My grandpa. A friend from high school. Mr. Hetti, that sweet old man from church. Who else?

It was then the most incredible thought occurred to me! I will see people from THE PAST…not just my past but “THE PAST.” From the First Century, from the Renaissance, from the Civil War, the early 19th century, FROM ALL TIMES! How amazing is that?

I love me some history so this epiphany is pretty much as good as it gets (from a history lover’s perspective). Generations are able to overlap one another but are inevitably separated by death. Think about it. My great grandfather existed in his generation at the same time as his daughter/my grandmother existed in her generation. I am existing in my generation at the same time my grandmother is existing in her generation, but all three of us (my great grandfather, grandmother and myself) have never existed simultaneously because death has separated us. Death separates generations.  Make sense?

In heaven there is no death which means for the first time EVER, all generations coexist!! I will be hanging out with people from the past while very much in the present! Mind blowing! A journalist’s dream! I’m not suicidal but WOW I’m looking forward to heaven even more!