Choosing to SEE: Please Let Us See!

We’re not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us; we are wondering how painful the best will turn out to be.
C. S. Lewis

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“God.. you’ve got to show us something tangible so we can know Maria’s with You! Please, we need to see you in this, please let us see!”

Steven looked down at Maria’s table. There was a piece of notebook paper there. Maria had drawn a six-petaled flower with a green stem and two leaves. Only one of the petals was colored in. Blue. Maria’s favorite color. The center of the flower was orange.

Steven saw something bleeding through from the other side of the paper. He turned it over. Maria had colored an orange butterfly, and written a word she’d never, ever put down on paper before.

Maria could write her name and little things such as “I love you,” but she hadn’t started writing other words yet. Since Stevey Joy was a little older and a year ahead of Maria in preschool, she had a list of words to learn. Steven’s best guess is that Maria must have copied one of the words off the list.

And the word she wrote was SEE.

SEE.

Staring at Maria’s artwork, Steven had tears spilling down his face. It was like Maria was speaking to him from heaven, from the very realm of eternity, saying “SEE? Can you SEE? Everything is going to be all right. I am here with Jesus. I am fine. Heaven is real, the gospel is true, you just have to SEE!”


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