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No one loves us like God does. So completely, and for always. God loves us when we are faithful and when we are not. And God loves us through all of the good times and bad. Just as He loves us when we love Him and when we do not.

We have all seen something beautiful on earth or in the skies above us, but this is nothing compared to the radiant beauty of Heaven.

For example, there are so many stunning colors in Heaven. Colors that are not on earth that we will need Heavenly eyes to see them all.

The Garden of Heaven will be filled with exquisite flowers. Flowers that are so much more beautiful than anything we can imagine! And flowers that have a fragrance that fill the air with a scent that is astonishing! If we were on earth we might almost be overwhelmed with the incredible beauty of it all, but in Heaven we are not. Our hearts and souls are just filled with Joy!

And an amazement that we are finally Home in Heaven for all eternity 🙂

“Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen” – Hebrews 11:1

“Faith is the substance” of things I hope to see”. What a comforting verse :). We know that Heaven awaits us, but we have not seen Heaven and so it is the “evidence of things not seen”.

Heaven is the most incredible, amazing and beautiful place that we are going to live in for all eternity, that we have not seen.

But just because we can’t see Heaven, that does not mean it is not there, it’s just on the other side 🙂

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.” – John 3:16

So many of us fear death, but death is just a doorway to Heaven. A place so wonderful, it’s almost hard for us to picture! But one thing we need to always remember: We are only in the Garden of Eden because Jesus’s Great Sacrifice built us a bridge.

In other words, We only get to Heaven, because we have accepted Jesus as our Savior. Truly accepted Jesus.

Heaven (The Garden of Eden) will have mountains and rivers, hill and valleys, grass and fields :). And it will have animals of all kinds. The “lion will lay down with the lamb, and so will we 🙂

Heaven will be filled with joy and peace for all of us! And we will have more fun than we ever thought possible :).

“In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.” – Genesis 1:1

“Then God said, “Let there be light”; and there was light.  And God saw the light, that it was good; and God divided the light from the darkness.  God called the light Day, and the darkness He called Night. So the evening and the morning were the first day.” – Genesis 1:3-4

“So God created great sea creatures and every living thing that moves, with which the waters abounded, according to their kind, and every winged bird according to its kind. And God saw that it was good.” – Genesis 1:21

When God spoke there was light :). “A warm golden glow”. Think of the light of the sun rise, that too is a “warm golden glow”. A bit of light to hold onto 🙂

Then God created the mountains and the oceans, the trees and the flowers 🙂

And then God created all of the animals. Suddenly there were fish, dolphins leaping, wales…There were birds filling the air with their song. There were lions, rabbits, squirrels, horses, monkeys… 🙂

So the pets we love so will be there too 🙂

All joining together to create a world that “was alive with color, sound and movement”.

And God saw that it was good 🙂

And this is the Heaven we are returning to forever. The Garden of Eden 🙂

There will be no more fear, no more pain…No more missing those we love! No more temptation. No more sin. No more dieting. No more feeling hungry. No more poverty. No more sickness. No more war. No more violence. No more peer-pressure. No more hesitation. No more suffering...

Heaven, simply put IS the Garden of Eden. We started there, and in a very real sense, and we will finish there. There is a wonderful quote:

“Perfect for snuggling up and sharing special moments, the Beautiful Garden is more than a story–it’s a bridge to meaningful conversations about faith, friendship and the wonders of God’s Creation. Because every child deserves to drift off to sleep with the Beauty of Eden in their hearts”

The Beautiful Garden by Grace Summers

We are those children, God’s children, all of us. And as we face the rather difficult world we live in, it grows ever more important that we “drift off to sleep with the Beauty of Eden in our hearts”, and the reazlization that the Garden Of Eden is Heaven, and will be our forever Home 🙂

Do yourself a favor, Take one fear off the table. Dying is not something to be afraid of. Because dying is just the door to Heaven-the Garden of Eden.

Are when we meet God :).

Someone once said that “understanding begins at the edges of our imagination”. It’s a great quote. The Trinity includes our Father, Jesus and the Holy Spirit. One. And Three.

But although we may struggle to understand the Trinity, we can Trust that God will make all things clear when we arrive in Heaven.

When we meet God, we will truly know the fullness of God’s Love for us :). Our Joy in this Love will know no boundaries.

But we will also look back upon our lives with God with complete honesty, and see not only all of our sins, but all of the things we should have done-and did not.

And then, we will truly be freed of all of them.

And we will understand, in full, just how truly forgiven we are. And how truly free.

And that freedom will include freedom from all temptation.

Finally we will be truly free!

First of all, let’s start with “Who opens the Gate”. Jesus does. And He can’t wait for us to come Home :). And He can’t wait to hug us!

What will we see when we first come to Heaven? We will see God in all His glory. We will see all of those we loved and all those who loved us shining. They will be so happy that we are there!

And we will see all of those that we shared the Gospel with.

And we will see the Holy Spirit, our Comforter and Friend 🙂

We will be welcomed and loved as never before. And we will finally be Home 🙂

We Follow Jesus to Heaven 🙂

Our Father and Jesus each hold one of our hands. And sometimes the Holy Spirit and Mary also comfort us as we go through the harder parts of the path. God will never leave us 🙂

We need to picture ourselves as children, holding their Hands as they lovingly guide us up the path to our Home.

This too is Prayer 🙂

Jesus loves children. One has only to read the Bible to see just how much. And it doesn’t say He loved American children or Mexican children or Saudi Arabian children, just as the Bible does not say that He loved white children, or brown children or black children.

Jesus loves ALL children and so should we!