WHEN ARE WE GOING TO HEAVEN?

Milton, here for Kristy:

Claudia asked, "When are we going to heaven to see Nana, Papa?

I had told her several weeks ago that we would see Nana again in heaven but that it would be a long time. How long is a long time to a four year old? Only about a week or so. To Claudia a long time had passed and it was time to go see Nana in heaven.

She also wanted to know how we were going to go there? "Papa, how will we get to heaven to see Nana," she asked?

Well there are no easy answers to give a four year old to questions like that, but I told her that I was coming to see her and that we would talk about all that when I arrived. She seemed to accept my answer to her.

Today I will drive to Tampa and see Julie and her two boys, Alex and Nic. On Friday I will fly from Tampa to San Juan and spend a few days with Jennifer Javier and their two children, Claudia and Lorenzo. I will return to Tampa and spend a few days there with Julie, Alex and Nic before I head back home.

I have a special gift for them from Kristy. Kristy recorded herself reading a book to the kids and telling them some "Knock, Knock" jokes. I have it on my computer and am going to make each of them a CD of Nana reading a story and telling them jokes. Kristy also read the salvation Scriptures to them from John and Romans. 

I wiped tears again today as I listened to her reading. She taped this after her brain surgery when reading was so very difficult and almost impossible for her to do. She tried several times until she got it taped in an acceptable way for them.

I will take pictures of Nana and the kiddies that we took before she passed and go with them to a photo center and let them pick a picture that they like of her. Then we will get a tough picture frame to put them in that will be each grandchilds own personal photo of their Nana.

We all have had a tough time dealing with her loss. I have untold numbers of people who have told me how surreal it is for Kristy to be gone. It is unbelievable.