Dream of Heaven

I humbly ask if you are reading this, to please say a prayer for my sweet daughter Lyndlee. Pray for her little heart as she misses and aches for her sweet brother Gavin. Pray that God continues to meet her in her needs and helps her heart through this. Pray for her as the sadness envelopes her at times. Pray she can have strength and courage to keep talking about her grief and share with us. Pray she continues to hold on tightly to Jesus and to the hope of His glorious and blessed Return! Tonight was hard as we were both just missing Gavin so much. Lyndlee was expressing her sadness in great depth and I knew we needed some Bible time because this is what we do. We cling to His words, we cling to His side when we can't find strength. And we decided our Bible story needed to be about heaven, about the promises we all have. So here is her Bible story from "The Jesus Storybook Bible" by Sally Lloyd Jones. Dear Sally, thank you for writing these words that spoke to our hearts in mighty ways tonight. Dream of Heaven: I see a throne. And on the throne is a King. And the King is Jesus. All around the throne people are bowing down. They are giving him their treasures. There are loud cheers and clapping, clapping and bright laughter like a thousand waterfalls and everyone bursts out singing a new song..... "This is our King! The Lamb who died, so we don't have to-our Rescuer. All Honor and Glory! Forever and Ever!" And every creature everywhere, in heaven and on earth and under the earth and in the sea, joins in. And then from all around a wide immense beautiful SILENCE. And I see Satan-God's horrible enemy-thrown down, defeated. I see a sparkling city shimmering in the sky: glittering, glowing-coming down! From heaven. And from the sky. Heaven is coming down to earth! God's city is beautiful. Walls of topaz, jasper, sapphire. Wide streets paved with gold. Gleaming pearl gates that are never locked shut. Where is the sun? Where is the moon? They aren't needed anymore. God is all the Light people will need. No more darkness! No more night! And the King says, "Look! God and all his children are together again. No more running away. Or hiding. No more crying or being lonely or afraid. No more being sick or dying. Because all those things are gone. Yes, they're gone forever. Everything sad has come untrue. And see-I have wiped away every tear from every eye!" And then a deep, beautiful voice that sounded like thunder in the sky says, "Look, I am making everything new!"