"I don't want you to give away my toys," my sweet grandaughter pleaded with her mom. “I love them!
Anita tried to reason with her heartbroken daughter. "It's OK, sweety, when we get to our new home, we will get to be with Daddy again, and he will get you some nice new toys. We just can't take a whole lot with us now." But even with the thought of seeing Daddy again and the beautiful new toys, it was hard for Maddie to give up all her old favorites.
Maddie will get to take a few things with her. The items that she cherishes most have been set aside to take along. She clings to those. She doesn't hold all her hopes in a hazy future somewhere else; she grasps the security of that little suitcase of the present.
I just read another writer's blog yesterday morning, What Death is Teaching Me He was writing from the perspective of having lost a baby, a baby that didn't have a chance to get attached to the the toys of this world. As I read the blog about death, it brought thoughts of Maddie's situation to the forefront.
Many of us are like four year old Maddie. We cling to our present life and the material trinkets we love. Oh yes, we've been told that our Heavenly Father is waiting to give us awesome treasures when we get to our new home, but that future seems hazy, and like Maddie, we cling, and that clinging spoils some of the anticipation of moving on.
The only real way to approach the move we are getting ready to make, is to forget about that suitcase of cherished items that we hold so dear, and focus our thoughts on the One we are going to be able to see face to face.
What a joyful day that will be!
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