Heaven is For Real-- Connections

Hello everyone,

      If you have read my last post I am reading an amazing book called Heaven is For Real by Todd Burpo.  Like I said last week, Colton has gone to Heaven and back. Now, we know that he was only there for three minutes but it sounds like he spent a couple days. We learn here that he meets two family members that had passed away that he never met. He says that he stayed with his dad's grandfather, and this made me think of my great grandmother that passed away recently. I started to think of how happy I would be to be greeted into Heaven by her. The only difference between me and Colton, is that his great grandfather had passed away years before he was even born. Things like this are making me really realize that this little boy actually went to heaven and back. Another person he saw which shocked me the most is his "second sister." As you know he only has one sister, Cassie. What Colton was never told, is that his mom had a miscarriage before he was even born. I started to really think when it said this since my mom had a miscarriage as well. It gave me hope that that baby was in heaven and was waiting for me. Colton continued to say that God adopted her and that she didn't have a name because they hadn't named her. This brought me to wonder if God adopts all babies that had died before they were born.
     Other than Colton meeting people, he talks a lot about physical characteristics of Heaven, God, and other things. He started to talk about how God is three people. I have always been confused about this and his experience cleared it up for me. Colton was saying how he sat next to God the Holy Spirit, because he needed to pray for his dad. To help me picture it, he said that the Holy Spirit was kind of blue. I imagine him a little transparent and sky blue. The image of the Holy Spirit was not all that I learned. I also learned that it is never dark in Heaven, because Jesus and God bring light. There is also no sun since Jesus and God already provide light. I concluded that this also might be the reason that the time is so different in how he said he was gone for three minutes. You wouldn't think there was such thing as time there since there is no need for a sun.

Thanks for reading, Taylor                                                                 Read: 47 pages    Minutes read: 105 min.