Hevenly Thoughts

We didn't lose a lot of things when we made the move from North Dallas to Plano to Frisco this past year, but one thing Haley asks about often is her princess phone. Her Nom Nom gave her the phone and the reason she always remembers it is missing is that we still have the princess phone carrier around to remind us of its absence. Yesterday at Walmart we say the replacement phone with Cinderella on the outside and decided to just replace the missing phone.

Haley spent the remainder of the afternoon calling everyone she could think to call. My favorite conversation of the evening was one she had with Aunt Shana. Shana's dog died that day and I had mentioned it to Haley and just told her simply that "Oscar died". We said a prayer at lunchtime and included a prayer for Shana and that was that.

When she pretended to call Shana on the phone I overheard something about Oscar. After she said "goodbye" I asked her what she said to Aunt Shana. She replied, "I wanted to tell Aunt Shana not to worry that Oscar said he was having fun in heaven with Jesus."

Whether you believe pets go to heaven or not, the sweetest connection in Haley's mind and heart had occurred. Since VBS she had been pondering death...I think they talked about Jesus dying and raising from the dead. She's asked lots of questions and can't get it out of her head. It is a pretty abstract idea. Who can blame her?

But, we can only hold onto the hope our sweet little 3 year old proclaimed to Shana and look forward to the day we'll have fun with Jesus in heaven too!