It's fun to talk about heaven, about the throne of God and Jesus and Pop and the daughter we thought we had lost but will meet again someday. But it's not fun to talk about how we got there.
Todd BurpoYeah, she said she just can't wait for you and Daddy to get to heaven."...From that moment on, the wound from one of the most painful episodes in our lives, losing a child we had wanted very much, began to heal.
Todd BurpoA friend of ours, the wife of a pastor at a church in Colorado, had once told me about something her daughter, Hannah, said when she was three years old. After the morning service was over one Sunday, Hannah tugged on her mom's skirt and asked. "Mommy, why do some people in church have lights over their heads and some don't?" At the time, I remember thinking two things: First, I would've knelt down and asked Hannah, "Did I have a light over my head? Please say yes!" I also wondered what Hannah had seen, and whether she had seen it because, like my son, she had a childlike faith.
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Jesus clearly viewed children as precious - and that if he loved kids enough to say that adults should be more like them, we should spend more time loving them too.
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...when I was angry at God because I couldn't go to my son, hold him, and comfort him, God's son was holding my son in his lap.
Todd BurpoYou might as well tell God what you think. He already knows it anyway.
Todd BurpoThe Scripture says that as Jesus gave up his spirit, as he sagged there, lifeless on that Roman cross, God the Father turned his back. I am convined that he did that because if he kept on watching, he couldn't have gone through with it.
Todd BurpoNow was not the time to quit and mourn. Now was the time for prayer and action.
Todd BurpoWe’d been given a gift and our job now was to unwrap it…and see what’s inside.
Todd BurpoWhere are there lots of colors, Colton?" "In Heaven, Dad. That's where all the rainbow colors are!
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