Heaven Is Real

My sister recently sent me a book called "Heaven Is Real" by Todd Burpo. It is about a young child named Colton Burpo who almost dies due to appendix rupture and after he recovered it was discovered the child had an after life experience. This book was amazing and I could not set it down. I only set it down when I would read something that made me cry and I would need to walk away to compose myself. Colton was only 4-years-old when he got really sick and had almost died. Months after his recovery he describes heaven and Jesus Christ. This was a great story. Through Raylee's fight with with cancer many people reached out to us and helped us in many many ways. It wasn't easy to take the help and it was an extremely humbling experience. We understand that through Jesus Christ people get inspired to help others and if we didn't except the help from others we would prevent them from reaching those blessings from God and fulfilling the inspiration they received. My sister marked a section in the book "Heaven Is Real" and stated it remindd her of me and Jerry. This is what it says:
"We were adamantly self-reliant--maybe, in retrospect, to the point of being prideful. But that grueling stint in the hospital snapped our pride like a dry twig and taught us how to be humble enough to accept help from other people, physically, emotionally, and financially.
It's good to be strong and able to bless others, yes. But we learned the value of being vulnerble enough to let others be strong for us, to let others bless us. That, it turned out, was a blessing to them as well."
We are indeed grateful for Raylee's progress in recovery. We are indeed grateful for everyone who reached out to us to help support us just as it says above--physically, emotionally, and financially. I can't believe it is November. So much has happened in the last 6 months and time has flown by, but yet at the same time it seems like the last 6 months were 6 years. I think that is because of how exhausting it has been. What has helped us get through this is the stability of all of our supporters. That is what has made such a difference.
There is a quote a friend gave me when Raylee was really sick that says "Gods promises are like the stars; the darker the night the brighter they shine." David Nicholas I encourage all of us to stay close to God and as little Colton in the book "Heaven Is Real" would say, and keep Jesus in your heart. God doesn't always make things happen the way we want, and sometimes we all experience hard times, but this is all part of the bigger plan of refining us so that someday we will understand how to be like Him. In saying this, it doesn't mean I never got upset with God that Raylee was so ill, I sure did. I think that's normal as long as that anger doesn't get the best of you and doesn't hurt your relationship with God.