Take me to Heaven!

"This life ain't always wonderful, but this life ain't all there is"- Matthew West

Here I am again, another song reference! I guess God just loves to speak to me through music. I heard this song this morning and the words just stuck to my brain.

When I was 16 my grandmother got really sick. She was diagnosed with the big C. I was extremely close with her my whole life. Many weekends were spent hanging out with my cousins at my memaws house. I remember I was just getting out of school when my parents told me the news. I broke. I honestly didn't think I'd survive through it. But then my uncle told us what her last words were. She cried out to her husband. She saw my daddy Tab. He met her at the pearly gates and that was her way of telling us she was with God and her husband. They both welcomed her home.

You see, her life didn't end when she died. Her life began! Her life had a lot of ups and downs here on earth, just like all of us, but she knew what was waiting on her beyond death. She knew that God would be waiting to hold her in His arms once she got there. That right there is the perfect example of the line in this song. Cancer may have taken her from the earth, but God had so much more waiting on her in Heaven.

"I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus."- Phillipians 3:14