I'm blessed for God's Word always has the answer to our every question. Hope 
this story touches you like it did me!

                            ONLY GLIMPSES
                        
    Laurel knew she was dying. Over the weeks, we often talked about 
heaven-what it would look like and how it would be to live there. It seemed 
we always ended up crying and then holding each other tight in gentle hugs of 
hope. The hardest part was trying to imagine something we had never seen, 
something about which we knew only a little. And then I remembered this story:

    The young girl with the blond hair and the deep blue eyes had been blind 
since birth.  When she was twelve, the doctors were able to perform a new 
type of surgery that, if successful, would give her the gift of sight. The 
outcome would not be known for several days. After the bandages were removed, 
her eyes had to be protected from the light. So she sat in darkness, waiting. 
The mother spent long hours answering her daughter's questions about what 
things looked like and what she should expect. They were both so excited 
about the possibility of being able to see that neither of them slept much. 
Over and over, even in the darkness, they talked about every lovely thing  
they could imagine-colors, shapes, beauty of every kind. 
    
   Finally the moment came when the young girl's eyes could endure enough 
light for her to look out the window. She stood there for a long time without 
saying a word.  Outside, the spring day was ideal, bright and warm with 
fluffy 
white clouds decorating the blue sky. Lacy blossoms sprinkled to the ground 
like pink snow as soft breezes stirred the cherry trees. Yellow crocuses 
proudly lined the brick walkway that wound across the grass.
    
   When the girl turned back to her mother, tears were streaming down her 
cheeks.  

"Oh, Mother.  Why didn't you tell me it would be so beautiful?"

    I shared this story with my friend, tears filling my own eyes: "Laurel, 
right now we're sitting in the darkness, but before long you will be asking 
God the same question."

BY Alice Gray, From More Stories for the Heart, Multnomah Publishers, Inc. 


God's Speed.
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