Dear Madelyn,
Your Mom says you want to see your grandmother. Your Mom wrote “Madelyn (is) asking me 1937473 times a day, “when will Grandma Carol come back alive?” That’s a lot of asking!
Your Grandma wants to be with you too! She wants to spend time with you, watch you play, see you grow up. Your Grandma loved her family. I know your Mom and Grandfather miss her very, very much. We all do. She passed away before you were born.
Maddie, someday you will see her. Your parents are teaching you about Jesus. We don’t see Jesus, do we? We don’t see your Grandma Carol and we don’t see Jesus, but Jesus is alive, and your Grandma Carol is alive. She's alive with Jesus. Someday we’ll see one another. Jesus told His disciples, “If I go to prepare a place for you, I will come again and will take you to myself, that where I am you may be also” (John 14:3). One day Jesus is going to take us to a new home. Jesus will be there. You'll see Grandma there. Everyone who loves Jesus will be there. Our new home is called “heaven.” It will be wonderful. No more hurts. No more tears. No more missing Grandma. We don’t know when Jesus will take us to our new home. That’s His secret. We’ll be surprised. Now we just wait. Big people are waiting too. That’s why big people say in church, “I look for the resurrection of the dead and the life of the world to come.”
There’s lots of big people talk in church, isn’t there? Sometimes the pastor says, “With angels and archangels and all the company of heaven, we laud and magnify Your glorious Name.” “With all the company of heaven” means that right now Grandma and all who love Jesus are already together. We can’t see some people, like we can’t see Grandma Carol, but we’re all together when we look to Jesus. That’s one of the great things about going to church. We’re with “all the company of heaven.”
Maddie, your Dad and Mom take care of you because they love you. Jesus loves you too. One day you’ll see your Grandma Carol, all because Jesus loves you so much.
Uncle Dale