Heaven

Aaris. Wow. She amazes me. It has been nothing by pure joy to have her sweet spirit back since God sent us the answer to her tummy problems. She is voluntarily and abundantly full of helpfulness, kindness, appreciation, obedience, and love again.

One of the things I adore about her the most is her love for God and Jesus. She talks about them all day, every day. She is especially fond of Heaven. Every night she finds the wishing star and tells us all that we have to make a wish. She always wishes for the exact same thing: "To go up to heaven soon (if possible, tomorrow)".

She is always talking about what she wants to do in heaven. I never tell her that any of it isn't impossible, because who am I to know what heaven is going to be like beside pure joy. She prays prayers to God about what her room in heaven can look like. She gets very frustrated by not being in heaven already. She tells me things like, "I know God can do things very fast so I don't understand why He doesn't have heaven ready for us yet so He can come and get us".

The other day Aaron was taking our Christmas lights down and she wanted to get up on the roof with him for just a minute. I told her that she had to be very, very careful, and pay attention every second to what her daddy was telling her to do because I didn't want her to fall off. She asked me why. I told her she could die if she fell off. She wasn't scared at all and just said with anticipation almost, "Then I could go to heaven!" Of course that freaked me out a little, but I knew that she was only saying it with the innocence and love that are in a child's heart.

Last night I could hear Aaron and Aaris talking up in the game room. I didn't hear Aaron's question, but only Aaris's answer which was "ALL I want to do is be a mommy and go to heaven...that's ALL I want".

The other day brought about a question I had been wondering would arise lately. Aaris asked when she could be baptized. I told her that she needed to be able to give her life to God and to be ready to use her life to serve God, and of course she needed to believe in Him and in Jesus. She said, "But, I do all that already." I told her we would need to have some talks with her Daddy before we decided on a decision like baptism. But, even though I don't think she is mature enough, it just THRILLED my soul to know that my little girl is that faithful already.

I pray. Oh boy, do I pray that God helps guide me to develop that faith and to help it only to mature and grow so that Aaris lives an amazing life of having God work through her. I don't know when Jesus will be coming back to take us all home, but for now, Aaris is my bit of heaven here on earth.