Sweet Cason

I know it has been way too long since my last post… so long that it is so hard to even begin a new one. I am not even going to try and catch everyone up on the Best family happenings because there are way too many, hence the absence of any new posts! We are doing good… BUSY, but good! Tonite I had a conversation that I knew I needed to blog about before I forgot it, so here goes…

A very loved and Godly man from our church passed away very unexpectedly last week from a heart attack. His funeral was last Friday, and the entire church was attending, so we had to take Cason with us. I was explaining to him where we were going and why, and he asked why this man had died. I told him that his heart had quit beating, and God decided it was time for him to come up to heaven with Him. Cason has been really serious about all of this ever since. Here was our conversation tonite:

Cason came running in from his bath with his towel on like a cape. He sat down to put on him jammies and noticed his heart beating heavy from running around like a superhero….
Cason: "Mommy, my heart is beeping…"
Me: "Yep, that’s good… that means you are alive."
C: "Mommy, is your heart still beeping?"
M: "Yep, I am alive, too…"
C: "Mommy is your heart going to stop beeping?"
M: "Someday it will, but I hope it is not some day too soon. When our heart stops, we can’t live here anymore; we get to go to heaven and live with God. [trying to fight back the tears and not be too serious about the subject] Let’s get our jammies on."
C: "Yah. Mommy, do we have to go nite nite in heaven?"
M: "I don’t know, maybe. We will have to wait and see"
C: "I don’t want to have to have rest time in heaven. I want to stay up and play v-smile (video games) with Coby and Micah. [his face lights up] Does God have lots of v-smiles in heaven?"
M: "Maybe. The Bible tells us that there are no tears in heaven, so that means nobody cries up there."
C: [face really lit up] "So Coby is always sweet to me?? And I don’t get any spankings??"
M: [fighting back the smile] "That’s right!"
C: "Oh, Mommy, I want to go there! [pause….] But I just want you to go with me…."
Their faith is just amazing to me… and I just think how much like children we are with our own faith. I do want to go to heaven, but just not yet… and I want to take all the people I love with me.