Heaven is for Real

So I finished reading Heaven is for Real last week. In case you haven’t heard about this book. It is a “true story” about a family and how their little four year old son made a trip to heaven while he was on the operating table.

When I read a book like this I have to decide “Am I going to buy it” or “take it with a grain of salt”. I decided that I am going to believe that this little boy did go to heaven, sit on Jesus’ lap and that he did see the things that says he saw and met the people he says he met.
The alternative is to think that this family is exploiting their boy or lying to make money. Call me naïve, but I don’t believe that is the case here.

With the theology of heaven put aside, this story is a reminder of how much God really loves us. He hears our prayers and he wants to be with us.
One of my favorite quotes from the book is from the little boy telling his dad about Jesus…”And he really, really loves us, Dad. You can’t belieeeeeve how much he loves us!”

I am slowly learning that God is good and God loves me as much as he says he does. I’ve been able to understand a pinch more since Emily has been born. I think about how much I love her, how I LOVE to be with her and I love it when she wants to be with me. How I miss her when she goes to bed (although sometimes I cant wait for this time ) and how I want to provide for her and help her to be her best self.
I now have a reference for how God loves me the same way. I still don’t get it…I still don’t feel it sometimes…but I have something very tangible now that I can reference in my relationship with God.

I don’t want to get into too much about what this little boy said goes on in heaven, mostly because it is dangerous to stray away from the Bible with anything in regards to God matters. Not that what this boy saw is NOT in the Bible, it also isn’t written out in the Bible the same way he described it.
All in all…it’s a good read, it’s a sweet story and it’s a good reminder of Gods love and it made me a little more excited for heaven too.