A Glimpse of Heaven
- engntx
- Oct 27, 2025
- 3 min read
This late summer we were in the car traveling as a family and Addison began to ask eternal perspective questions.
"Daddy, when the Lord takes us to be with him either if we die first or are raptured, will we know one another in heaven? "
"That is a really deep question Addison, there will be a familiarity of one another, but we won't have the same parental or marital relationships."
There were several questions and conversations that followed in that drive, but this stood out to us and was illustrated so beautifully for us on this side of eternity that day.
While shopping that day the Lord used a stranger to speak into our son as we stood at a distance and were able to witness the conversation. She affirmed him in his character and how he displayed integrity with such confidence through his actions. As our son might not have thought of himself looking at clothes and folding them correctly as a way to be Christ like; this lady found our son going above and beyond the expected norm. That spoke volumes to her, and she spoke life into him. It was such a sweet aroma of encouragement. She wasn’t aware internally of the heaviness of emotion we all were carrying, and the wrestling of frustration Kaden was working through. But the Lord did, and he sent someone to meet our son and us where we were in the valley of unknowns. The familiarity of the Spirit called out to one another to build one another up in Christ. We left that day from that shopping trip encouraged and reminded to...
“Let your light shine before others, that they may see your good deeds and glorify your Father in heaven” Matthew 5:16.
Eternal perspective and Earthly mission
· This place is not our home.
· “For to me, to live is Christ and to die is gain” Philippians 1:21.
· “Submit to one another out of the reverence for Christ” Ephesians 5:21.
· “Whatever you do whether in word or deed, do it all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him” Colossians 3:17.
· “Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for human masters, since you will receive an inheritance from the Lord as a reward. It is the Lord Christ you are serving” Colossians 3:23-24.
· “For where your treasure is there your heart will be also” Matthew 6:21.
Several weeks prior to our family car ride conversation was our first week in a new season of our lives. We entered a new unknown territory of chemotherapy with a week full of unfamiliar, but confident that hope abounds. On my third day of treatment at the water station the Lord revealed his purposes for this season and gave us such encouragement.
As I filled my cup up a lady was standing there, her hair was like Christmas tinsel sparkling and her eyes just twinkled with light and although a stranger her presence was so familiar.
( The conversation as follows Archie is the orange font and the lady's responses are the highlighted.)
Hello.
Hi.
How are you?
Grace Abounds.
I don’t know what I would do without the Grace of Jesus.
This place is like crossing the Red Sea from Egypt to the promised land.
On dry ground,
on dry ground.
Thank you for allowing me to share this moment with you.
Amen
We parted ways and I had such a confident peace after leaving that brief God ordained conversation, it was if I was entertaining an Angel.
“Do not forget to show hospitality to strangers, for by so doing some people have shown hospitality to angels without knowing it” Hebrews 13:2.
Moments like these are a glimpse of heaven. It was as if the Lord reminded me, you would come out and pass through this journey. It may be challenging BUT continue to look forward.
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