My Garden in Heaven
In my Father’s house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.
– John 14:2 KJV
Tonight I watched a movie called ‘Miracles from Heaven’. Based on real events the story chronicles the sickness of a small Burleson, Texas girl and her miraculous healing when she fell thirty feet onto her head inside of a hollow oak tree. While she was unconscious and trapped inside the tree beyond the help of parents, and rescuers she states that she went to Heaven and spoke with God.
When she had been rescued and awoke, she found that she had been ‘cured’ of the fatal illness that had brought her to close to death and her family to the precipice of loss of a child and sibling. She described her time in Heaven and her ‘conversation’ with God in terms probably as clear as a child can make someone who hasn’t been in God’s presence understand. Of course, the cinematography of such a journey was incredible and beautiful in and of itself.
But it makes one wonder, what is Heaven like? Will it be like that beautiful tranquil garden that I saw in the movie?
It occurred to me that maybe the heaven we experience will be the product of our lives here on earth, the colors and flowers of the tranquil garden echoing the love that we both received and more importantly gave during our life here on earth. I wonder, will my garden in heaven be light and airy with the beautiful sounds of God’s creatures surrounding me? Will it be filled with the golden light of God’s presence?
Or will it be the raucous cries of crows carried on a cold wind in a land of desolation that echoes a lonely life of sin and selfishness?
I know that my own garden will show the scars of weeds and thistles that I have allowed to creep into my life. Where my thoughts and actions have not been the best ones I’ve ever had. But I hope that along with those scars will be the marks of new soil being turned over by an ever patient gardener working the soil to bring forth new flowers. I pray that those scars will be few and that the new growth will be plentiful. I know that God is the patient gardener in my life and He will help me find my way to him in a heaven that will be every bit as beautiful as I can possibly imagine.
We need to remember that we are always surrounded by the miracles, in our world, in our families and in our neighbors. Miracles happen every day FOR all of us.
It is God’s way of letting us know that; HE IS HERE WITH US ALWAYS.
Thank you God.
One Comment
Gene
All of us have weeds in our garden. And we have an obligation to assist others as they attempt to rid their garden of the intruders. We must, however, be extremely careful we do not trample on the tender flowers growing in someone elses soil.
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