SO Thoughful...

One of the first things I do when I get home is look through the mail.  Rarely do we get anything besides a bill or another credit card offer.  There is the occasional invitation, birthday or anniversary card, birth announcement, etc.  All of which I love receiving...Okay you're right, the birth announcements sting a little, but I wouldn't not want to get them either.  Anyway...not very often, hardly ever are there surprise packages with thoughtful letters and beyond sweet gifts.  But, yesterday there was. 

Here is what was in my package yesterday...

Heaven is for Real, A Little Boys Astounding Story of His Trip to Heaven and Back

Along with the sweetest card and a personal hand written letter...those I NEVER get in the mail.  I want to share with you what it said. 

Kari & Clint,
This is the neatest book!  I just finished it and enjoyed it so much!  I thought of you two, and just had to send you a copy.  I pray that it will be a blessing to you as well ;)
We live along ways away, and we don't talk often - but I think of you and pray for you often.  I know God has plans for you and your family - and I just as anxious as you (well maybe not quite as much as you ;) )to find out what the are!!
Enjoy the book!
Love you,
Lori
"Let us hold unswervingly to the hope we profess, for He who promised is faithful"  Hebrews 10:23

Lori is my sweet cousin, who like she said lives a long ways away.  Well, only 4 hours but we don't get to see each other as often as we would all like.  Like she also said, we don't talk often.  Well, I'm sure we talk way more often and see each other way more often that a lot of cousins do, but our family is really, I mean really close.  So to us, spending each and every Holiday, a long weekend in the summer, and a few weekends through out the year, is not seeing each other very much. 

I can not say enough how much it meant to get that in the mail yesterday.  Even more, I can't tell you how excited I am to ready my new book!  Have any of you read this book?  If you haven't heard about it, it is a true story about a little boy who had an emergency appendectomy.  For months afterwards he shared stories about his trip to Heaven.  He talked of people in Heaven whom he had never had the chance to meet on Earth.  He knew of events that took place before his birth, and described Heaven with perfect detail.  Here is a clip of the little boy and his parents from the Today Show.

I do believe in Heaven, I know our sweet Nolan is happy there and that he will never have to suffer, ever.  I know that he has lots of loved ones taking care of him.  I know he has met his Grandpa Bruce, Clint's dad, whom I never had the privilege of knowing.  I know he is in a better place than we can ever imagine.  I think this book will be nothing but confirmation for all of the above.  After reading it maybe I will have a better idea of where my sweet baby is living and all the glory that surrounds him, and all my other loved ones in Heaven.

Now, I need to find a sweet thank you card to send to Lori.  I know what I send will NEVER make her feel the way her gift made me feel yesterday.