"...He wants us to press through our doubts [about heaven] so we can see the other eternal story going on, of which we are actually a crucial part. ... It is going on now--angels and God and heaven and us--and I wish that would become our normal." [Pg 48] In this chapter Jenni is talking about coming to an awareness of the unseen reality that exists along side the one we see ~ to give it significant space in our life. When my mother (who suffered with Alzheimer's) was in her last year of life she became increasingly separated from me and this life. I tried to hold her in my world. I would think to myself,"If she would just listen to me she would see..." But that wasn't true. She no longer saw this world, or her life, as she once had. Her context had shifted and previous family roles were gone. ALL she saw was what was ahead. I read about the dying process around the time of her death. What I found repeated in all these books was that once a person accepts death, they have to let go of this life. My point is not that we have to be facing a terminal illness to see into the spiritual realm, and the future we are promised. My point is that when we are willing to let go of what WE see as our life, and it's purpose, along with those things that we hold dear ~ God can re-structure our focus ~ showing us more than we could ever see before. My mother saw something perhaps like the picture above. Heaven had been here all the time. She saw and talked about that. When we do, our whole life will change.
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