heaven

Sometimes profound does not equal complex.

There is an old, hispanic man who my parents have become friends with since they moved to Texas. He is a man in his 80s. His ways are simple. His name is "Brother Bustos".

Brother Bustos said that when he was a little boy he loved to play up underneath the porch of his home, despite the fact that it was dirty and full of cobwebs, spiders, and other bugs.

When Brother Bustos was an adult he was praying one day and he said that the Lord spoke to his heart and asked him what was the most beautiful thing he had ever seen. A lover of the night sky, he prayerfully responded back that the stars were the most beautiful thing he had ever seen. And then God spoke back to his heart, saying that the stars were underneath His home. Brother Bustos was then reminded of his childhood, and the comparisons of the underneath of his porch and the actual house and thought in amazement, "oh, if the stars are the underneath of His porch... how much more grand is His home!"

What a touching and profound thought.

My cousin Jake (who I wrote about in my last blog) told me that his littlest brother Jeremiah (who is 15) has been having a lot of dreams about their Mom lately. Jake and Jeremiah were talking about heaven one day and Jeremiah started explaining to Jake that he sort of was understanding heaven by these Iron Man previews he'd been seeing... Jeremiah is super excited to see the soon to be released Iron Man, but right now all he can do is anticipate. He loves watching the previews, which sort of give him a taste of what is coming... although they don't totally satisfy the desire. He told Jake that he believed the dreams he had been having were God's previews for his future... while they do not satisfy his desire for heaven or being reunited with his Mom, they do wet his appetite and satisfy the longing even if just a little bit.

Simple and yet profound.