Hope.
Such a small word but filled with lots of promise. We received an email from some missionary friends this week and he was talking about the verse "...faith, hope, love but the greatest of these is love." How easy it is to accept the importance of faith and love but hope...that may seem not as important. He was talking about how without hope, it is hard to have faith. How do we have faith if there is no hope of God.
It hit home to me yesterday as Princess was asking me about Maggie, what happens after she dies, is she in heaven? I honestly don't have an answer for her about that. I don't know if animals go to heaven and I am not going to say definitely to her one way or the other. But I do have hope. Hope that we are going to heaven, hope that Jesus knows our hearts and knows how much our animals mean to us on earth. I have hope as I talk to my child about death that when we die, it isn't the end for us, it isn't scary. There are no more owies in heaven. What an amazing thing to be able to tell her.
Imagine if I wasn't able to tell her about heaven, that after we die there is nothing. We are just put in the ground and forgotten about. So sad and so hopeless. What would be our purpose if that was all there is to life? If there was nothing more?
An amazing gift God has given us.
Hope.
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It IS wonderful to tell our kids about heaven! I had the opposite experience as a child. All my parents could say was "I don't know" when I asked what happens when we die. It was terrifying for me to hear that as a child! I as so happy when I found out about heaven and the HOPE we have! Good reminder!
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