Heaven is for Real: A Little Boy's Astounding Story of His Trip to Heaven and Back by Todd BurpoMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
I really love Heaven and stories/ideas/thoughts regarding what Heaven will be. The book is a quick read with the ability to challenge, encourage or perhaps enrage depending on where one is at in regards to faith and/or Christianity. For me, it came at the closing of a year when many upstanding men of faith have passed away and I hope that they have entered a Heavenly Kingdom such as what is described biblically and within the pages of this book.
Favorite quotes/passages:
"What is childlike humility? It's not the lack of intelligence, but the lack of guile. The lack of an agenda. It's that precious fleeting time before we have accumulated enough pride or position to care what other people might think." (pg. 75).
"I had to die on earth so people could come see my Dad" (pg. 111)
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I really can't explain how much I enjoy thinking about heaven and hearing stories that resonate with what I believe to be true about the Kingdom of Heaven. I just love it and there are things stated in this book that are hard to believe and come from the lips of a child and I'm honestly not sure how many details regarding heaven the human race should be afforded, but I'm a dreamer, so I'll take the bait.
I really love heaven. It's one of the things I 'learned' about early in my faith journey and that I just love and I look forward to it and I believe in it and I'm frankly not ashamed about this fact of myself. I really love heaven.
This book encourages me to keep loving heaven and really love children.
I recommend it. That's all.
(Typed while sitting at 519 Clark wanting to go to bed and for unexplainable reasons not drinking a mug of tea - go figure)
