Heaven is for real

I read this book and thought I had notes from it, but I guess not. It's an amazing story. It's about a little boy who has a close call with death and has a visit to heaven. He meets people there, like his dad's grandfather whom he never met on earth and a sister who died before he was born (it was a miscarriage).

(I'm surprised I didn't write about this before-there is so much in the story. Maybe it's under another title. Anyway, I will check later).

I've wanted to see the movie for a while (it came out in April 2014) and came across it the other night on TV. It was about half an hour in. The things that stood out the most (that made me cry) were some scenes with one of the members of the congregation (Colton's father was a pastor) who lost her son in war, and a painting of Jesus that a young girl painted who also said she had a vision of heaven. I will focus on the mother who lost her son and then the painting.

The mother who lost her son had a problem with the pastor, and he didn't know what it was for a while. She didn't like him talking about heaven so much and he finally found out why when he went to visit her son's grave and she came while he was there. I guess he was a frequent visitor to his grave. He asked her why she was upset with him and she shared how she didn't understand how the prayers for his son were answered and he "came back" when her son still died.

The pastor didn't have an answer (that's a very hard question), so he asked her if she loved her son. She said yes. She asked if she thought he loved his son. She said yes. He asked her if he loved his son more than she loved her son. She said no. He then asked if she thought God loved his son more than her son. That made me cry. In the scene too, she had some orchids for her son's grave, and at the end of the movie when she was playing the piano in church, she saw him in the crowd, holding the orchid.

(Before I forget, a song that was sung/played in the movie was Come Thou Fount which I tie to you a lot these days).

For the painting part, Colton said he saw Jesus in heaven, but when he saw pictures of Jesus, he said He didn't look like any of them. One thing he said is that all the pictures on earth have Him with dark eyes, but Jesus' eyes are light, like blue-green. This bothered his dad, so he kept doing research on it.

One time, the dad came across a story on the internet about a girl in another country who said she had a vision of Jesus. She was an artist and painted a picture of what Jesus looked like. When Colton saw the picture, he told his dad that it was what Jesus looked like. The focused in on that picture at the end of the movie and it made me cry how beautiful He was.

That was a very healing movie and I had a dream about you that night which I will record later. Love you!