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“You might as well tell God what you think,” I said. “He already knows it anyway.”
― Heaven is for Real: A Little Boy's Astounding Story of His Trip to Heaven and Back
― Heaven is for Real: A Little Boy's Astounding Story of His Trip to Heaven and Back
“I smoothed Colton’s blanket across his chest and tucked him in snug the
way he liked—and for the first time since he started talking about heaven, I
intentionally tried to trip him up. “I remember you saying you stayed with
Pop,” I said. “So when it got dark and you went home with Pop, what did
you two do?”
Suddenly serious, Colton scowled at me. “It doesn’t get dark in heaven,
Dad! Who told you that?”
I held my ground. “What do you mean it doesn’t get dark?”
“God and Jesus light up heaven. It never gets dark. It’s always bright.”
The joke was on me. Not only had Colton not fallen for the “when it gets
dark in heaven” trick, but he could tell me why it didn’t get dark: “The city
does not need the sun or the moon to shine on it, for the glory of God gives
it light, and the Lamb is its lamp.”
― Heaven is for Real: A Little Boy's Astounding Story of His Trip to Heaven and Back
way he liked—and for the first time since he started talking about heaven, I
intentionally tried to trip him up. “I remember you saying you stayed with
Pop,” I said. “So when it got dark and you went home with Pop, what did
you two do?”
Suddenly serious, Colton scowled at me. “It doesn’t get dark in heaven,
Dad! Who told you that?”
I held my ground. “What do you mean it doesn’t get dark?”
“God and Jesus light up heaven. It never gets dark. It’s always bright.”
The joke was on me. Not only had Colton not fallen for the “when it gets
dark in heaven” trick, but he could tell me why it didn’t get dark: “The city
does not need the sun or the moon to shine on it, for the glory of God gives
it light, and the Lamb is its lamp.”
― Heaven is for Real: A Little Boy's Astounding Story of His Trip to Heaven and Back
“because I couldn’t go to my son, hold him, and comfort him, God’s son was holding my son in his lap.”
― Heaven is for Real: A Little Boy's Astounding Story of His Trip to Heaven and Back
― Heaven is for Real: A Little Boy's Astounding Story of His Trip to Heaven and Back
“we learned the value of being vulnerable enough to let others be strong for us, to let others bless us. That, it turned out, was a blessing to them as well.”
― Heaven is for Real: A Little Boy's Astounding Story of His Trip to Heaven and Back
― Heaven is for Real: A Little Boy's Astounding Story of His Trip to Heaven and Back
“unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven. Therefore, whoever humbles himself like this child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven.”5 Whoever humbles himself like this child . . . What is childlike humility? It’s not the lack of intelligence, but the lack of guile. The lack of an agenda. It’s that precious, fleeting time before we have accumulated enough pride or position to care what other people might think. The same un-self-conscious honesty that enables a three-year-old to splash joyfully in a rain puddle, or tumble laughing in the grass with a puppy, or point out loudly that you have a booger hanging out of your nose, is what is required to enter heaven. It is the opposite of ignorance—it is intellectual honesty: to be willing to accept reality and to call things what they are even when it is hard.”
― Heaven is for Real: A Little Boy's Astounding Story of His Trip to Heaven and Back
― Heaven is for Real: A Little Boy's Astounding Story of His Trip to Heaven and Back
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