For those who know my son, most would attest that he is pretty fearless. But he is wary of a few things, like meeting a lot of new people and eating lasagna. He is truly afraid of only one thing that we have discovered so far and that is heights. Anything over about six feet off the ground and you can pretty much count him out. He wouldn't even climb our back deck stairs for a long time. Well the other night as Jake was putting him to bed Jake asked Isaac if he wanted to go to heaven, and was more than a little surprised when he said no. So upon further questioning, Isaac admitted that he didn't want to go to heaven because it was too high. Tonight as I put him to bed he asked me how high is heaven. I told him that heaven is where God is and we won't be scared if we're with God.
This got me in deep thought mode. Isn't is scary to think about being apart from God? I pray that my family will all be faithful and we can be in heaven together, no matter how high, or far, or how difficult it may be to get there because where God is is where I want to be and where I want them to be.
Bless his heart!! I've had a hard time explaining to my 1st and 2nd graders that we don't really know where heaven is...we just say up because that's what makes sense to us. Paige has no fears, that I know about. But, Liam is terrified of being left behind. (Middle child, maybe?) Patrick is pretty fearless, too. I think he fears eating fish more than anything else right now. ;) We'll be praying for your family. I know how much that means to you.
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