2.26.2012

Painting Heaven

I want to ask Heaven if I can go upstairs to Jesus’ house to see Celia.  Heaven is behind RoRo’s house. Jesus' house is up in the sky there. They have fish and a cage for the muskrat to live in. And stickers, Heaven has stickers. I can go there and say hi to Celia and Colby, then we can play, then I can say bye.

He thinks Heaven is a person.
He thinks Jesus has a street address.
He says goodbye in a see-you-tomorrow kind of way, not a forever kind of way.
Who are we to say otherwise. 

We try to coax memories until the words create the Celia who will live in his mind.  We try to encourage stories, to help whatever persistent little echo keeps him believing she visits our world and he can visit hers.  You can say goodbye to her whenever you, wherever you want, we tell him.  Celia lives in Jesus' house and in your heart, we say.  But really, we mostly listen.  He seems much wiser about all this than we'll ever be.
 JEB

6 comments:

rht said...

I love the picture you're all painting...

Ninja Cate said...

This is so lovely and dear. I love it-thank you for sharing with us all.

Tiffany said...

Well...if he wasn't before, he's cemented in my heart now.

The Wendels said...

These children have so much to teach us!

Smitty 1, 2 , 3 and 4 said...

What an amazing child he is... (I am smiling a soft smile and my heart is warm with love.)

McKenna said...

Such a beautiful image he is learning to paint. I always find I need to explain so much less to my children than I think I do. They just know about their sister and that she is never far.