based on where I was living at the time, it would've been 2004 or 5, and I believe it was 2005... I was in my bathroom getting ready - but had my friend on my mind... her father was sick and in the hospital back in Indiana - as I stood getting ready that morning in my Jacksonville, FL apartment - I had one of the very limited visions I've received - it was to my left over the empty part of the counter that didn't house the sink - and it was, what I instantly knew at the time, a picture of 4 people walking into heaven - they were a family of four - all holding hands and this father, the one in the hospital at the time was the 2nd one in from the right and while they were all in a line holding hands moving as one - he was just leading them in the slightest as his body was confidently protruding out from the others
each face was bold though and wildly valuable
and each figure was walking in as much strength as they were peace
the vision was unity
and it was beautiful
her dad just passed away this past November, isn't it funny the souls that make an impact on another... i knew this man some growing up b/c he was my childhood best friend's dad - but I only saw him a handful of times as an adult - and yet here it is not even 2 months after he passed and today on my drive back from taking H to school - his life blesses me
i've never forgotten that vision from almost 20 years now and today it hit me as I turned the corner onto the street I live - out of no where there it was but this time it spoke directly to the brokenness of my little family - actually to the wholeness of it despite what is seen - reminding me what life seems to always be teaching - that earth is the back of the quilt - and heaven - it's the unimaginable beauty known as the front - what breaks on earth - doesn't disqualify wholeness in heaven, quite the contrary as heaven is the very place all things are brand new