Ponderings from the mini-van, third row . . .

This is another delightful, thought-provoking, and completely true conversation my 7-year-old started with me on our way to church Sunday morning. (Please see other exciting conversations of this nature, such as "Does the president sin?" on this blog)


Aidan: Is Judgement Day on the calendar?

Mom: No. We don't know the day or hour Jesus will come back.

Aidan: Oh, 'cuz when Judgement Day comes, God's gonna destroy the whole earth.

Mom: Yeah, but Jesus will take all of us who believe in God to Heaven to be with Him forever.

Aidan: You think I'll get to sit next to a president in Heaven? Do you think I could sit next to Ronald Reagan?

Mom: Well, when we're in Heaven, we'll just be so excited about being with God forever we won't care about anything else, like who we're sitting next to.

Aidan: That's a great feeling. (he smiles a smile that nearly brought me to tears)

Mom: Yes, it is a great feeling.

Aidan: Don't you think the excitement will wear off, though?

Mom: No.

Aidan: It'll probably wear off after about 2 billion years.

Mom: No, the Bible says we'll have new bodies when we're in Heaven. So we'll be different and it probably won't wear off.

Aidan: What kind of new bodies?

Mom: I don't know, but we won't worry about stuff like sin anymore, because our bodies we got now seem to make us sin.

Aidan: I hope He gives us new minds too, because my mind makes me sin!


That kid's always giving me something to think about. I love his heart and his mind.