I recently finished the book Heaven Is for Real, the story of a 4 year-old boy's visit to heaven. It was such an encouragement. You can read more about it at heavenisforreal.net if you'd like. I wrote this poem about heaven:
There Is a Place
this world is
full of striving and struggle
but there is a
place
the world heaves
with heartache
but there is a
place
this world is
worn by fighting and war
but there is a
place
this world is
tossed and weary
harassed and
helpless
but there is a
place
in this world
you will have trouble, He said
but take heart
I have overcome
in this world
you will have tribulation
but look up
I give you joy
in this world
you will be persecuted and hated
but look beyond
I go to prepare
a place
in this world
you may have heaviness
but gaze out at
the night sky
look up at the
sliver of the moon
look out across
fields of wheat
and let your
eyes stretch out across horizons
because
somewhere, far beyond the sky
I am there
preparing for
you a room in heaven
where sorrow
will be no more
where no one
will grow old
where never you’ll
meet a stranger
and everything
broken will be restored
no more sighing
pain
fear
torment
no more crying
there
there will be no
night
look up my
friends, and take heart
there is a place
“These things I have spoken to
you, that in Me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation; but
be of good cheer, I have overcome the world.”.”
John 16:33
