Author: E.Y. Redal

Heaven is For Real

There is a movie being shown in some theaters that you should see. It’s called “Heaven is for Real.” I will see it soon, but I have read the book so I know a little about it. It’s about a little boy around six years old. I can’t remember just why he was in the hospital, whether he was sick or in an accident, but he was in a coma for several days. He came out of the coma, was healed and taken home. In a few days, he was running around just like any of his friends. That is, he was normal in every way but his speech!

He kept telling about a place he was in and he called heaven. His parents were amazed at some of the things he said because they had never mentioned any of them. I recall one thing he told about because I had two babies who died, one lived a few minutes but the other was born dead. Both were full term babies. Anyhow the little boy told his mother that he met his two sisters in heaven. The mother had never told him of the two miscarriages she had before the little boy was born! When I read that I was comforted somehow. He also told many other things like visiting with his grandfather who had recently died.

I do think you should see that movie. If you don’t believe there is life after death or if you do believe, as I do, it is good. It can make you think in any case. I want to take as many folks with me to heaven as I can. That is one movie you will enjoy and you will start thinking about what is going to happen after you die and maybe decide you too want Jesus to live in your heart forever.

There are many stories about people who have visited heaven but all of them can be believed or not as they were all told by adults you don’t know. But this little boy told of things he had seen in heaven and he had never been told of them or seen anything he described.

I wrote of a strange thing that happened sort of like that in my book. A boy about 12 suffered a burst appendix. His parents and my dad were in the hospital  room. The boy was quiet for several hours and then he sat up and smiled at someone. He asked my dad, who was a pastor, if he saw them too. My dad said, “No, I can’t see anyone.” The boy said there were several angels around him and they were singing. Then he asked his parents if they saw anyone. They hadn’t either. But he had seen angels who were taking him home. He died that night.

Yes, there is life after death and we will go live with Jesus in heaven or we will go to a place the Bible calls hell. My hope is that I will meet all of you in heaven. Wouldn’t that be nice?

Keeping Some of the Old Ways Alive

My clothes dryer played out a couple of weeks ago. I’m still trying to decide whether to get a new one or have the old dryer fixed. It costs $100 just to have a guy show up at the house and knowing that probably puts buying a new one in front of my decision making.

However, that’s not what my blog is about. There’s just something good about hanging clothes outside on a clothesline. Oh I know there is more ironing. The sun just doesn’t make them wrinkle free like a dryer does! But the fresh air. the birds singing and the flowering trees make up for that. I just enjoy going out the door with a basket of wet clothes ready to hang out and If that sounds strange, remember that I started out long ago.

It’s just like my wood stove. I enjoy putting the paper and kindling in the stove and lighting that with a match. As soon as the kindling starts burning, I let all my problems go away and I relax and enjoy my fire. I don’t know but I think of a burning campfire and the past years when we used a wood fire for our only source of heat in the old days.

Time just seems to be going too fast these days. I watch as teenagers walk in the park. They are texting or playing games. not even talking or seeing the flowering trees, the green grass or the blue sky above them. Oh, what they are missing! But the computers, tablets and cell phones are taking the place of the things of nature. I monitor the change of life in my book, He Leadeth me, a Grandmother’s Story. I hope you have read it, You will find it at Amazons book department and can read it on any of your phones or tablets. Yes, we have gone a long way during my lifetime.

But I still see children playing outdoors with their bikes and wagons. and they still  sell lemonade from their lawns. I bought some the other day. The price has gone up. I paid 50 cents and when I was the seller it was only a penny or two!  So perhaps children are the same as they were when I was a youngster. At any rate, I feel sorry for the kids who depend entirely on their cell phones or tablets! Don’t you?