Ridgell's Originals

Mommy (our daughter Julie) : "Jake, do you know Matt, the boy at church in the wheelchair?"

Jake (our kindergarden grandson): "Yes, Pops takes me to say hello to him."

Mommy: "Matt went to heaven last night."

Jake: "Mimi reads to me about heaven. Matt is with Jesus and he is not in his wheelchair."

Mommy: "We need to pray for his family. They miss him here."

Jake: "OK. But Matt is happy."

Best sermon on heaven I may have ever heard.

Thanks Matt for being enough like Jesus to talk to a Kindergarden kid.

Thanks Mommy, Dad, and Mimi for teaching Jake about Jesus and heaven.

And thanks Jake for the sermon about Jesus people who die:

Matt is with Jesus. Forever.

He is not in a wheelchair. The bad things of this life are over.

He is happy. Yep. That's why we grieve, but not as those who have no hope.

I believe that will preach.

Even more -- as Matt proved -- that will live. Now and forever.