Oh what an eventful few weeks it's been.God has been so faithful to our family in a huge way.
Mother fell and broke her arm and was hospitalized the first of the month. What we thought was "only" a broke arm ended up being renal failure,dehydration and lack of pain control. As the admission progressed Mother got worse and worse and we found ourselves not focusing on the arm but on all the other health issues that were more pressing. On Sunday night our family had an incredible glimpse into heaven as Mother was lingering on the thresh whole looking in and describing to us in vivid details what she was seeing. She had the most incredible smile on her face, one I have never seem before or since. When asked what she was looking at,(we knew she was seeing things that we couldn't see) she would say things like: "the One and Only," "My Lord and Savior Jesus Christ", she would raise her (good) arm to try and touch Him. She spoke of "Gates of Pearl" when asked about the streets she said "gold, solid gold" She mentioned that "He" had been her Savior for 75 yrs, (this is true). She began this journey by telling us that she saw her brothers and sisters, naming 2 sisters. Mother is the last of 11 children. She heard singing, but couldn't identify the song. I asked her about the flowers and Mother answered "incredible" (not a word she typically uses). I then asked her about the angels and she said "amazing angels". Our Mother has always been a woman of great faith and all her children were privileged to be with her as she stood at the gate and looked inside our eternal home. Mother reached a point that she told us she wasn't going anywhere and then she seem to stablize.
Some three weeks later she is doing amazingly well, in a Rehab.Center undergoing therapy for her arm.. When questioned about her experience several days later, she said she remembered some of it, "she knew she wasn't with us, but she knew that she wasn't in heaven" She said that all our faces looked like we were wearing heavy makeup but they were all "silver" Everthing that Mother saw is a eye witness confirmation of what God's Word teaches us about Heaven.
What does all of this mean? I believe that we were given this "Heavenly" experience for a reason. At this point each of the family is processing the message and it's meaning to us individually. We are each at a different stage in our Christian walk and the meaning is different for each of us. I know that our heavenly Father will speak and reveal to us the lesson we are to learn from Mother's journey. I personally will never be the same or think of "Heaven" without remembering this very significant time that we were given with Mother. All the Praise and Honor go to our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ!!!!
