As you know I am a hospice chaplain. This week I visited a senior with advanced Parkinson's disease. Some time Mary (name changed) can connect with conversation, sometimes not. We began to talk about the Christmas story. Mary said, "I wonder what heaven will be like?" Because this is hospice, I take such questions very seriously as folks often ask such questions because death is approaching. I asked "what do you think?" "I can't imagine"a reply most seniors would give as they learned that "Heaven, a place of eternal reward, is beyond anything we can imagine."
I reconnected to the Christmas story, "When you get to heaven, Mary, do you think Jesus whom you will meet will be an adult or will he be a baby like the one in the stable?" I had given Mary a small creche and we had talked about the figures whom she can still identify. Mary looked rather taken aback. "Mary, you could bounce him on your knee as you did your own son when he was small." Her eyes and smile lit up (Mary has one child a son) this she could relate to, "Wouldn't that be wonderful." I knew that Mary was holding her son/Jesus on her lap as she had done so many years ago.
Mary was in heaven, holding the Babe in her lap. It is the truth of our Christmas story.
Christmas blessings to each of you and your family and friends.
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