I was riding home from school today with Ellie and telling her about a friend ( a mom of one her friends at school) who has endured a lot of physical and emotional pain from a car accident and the ALL the surgeries she has had since then. After we discussed everything she paused and then said, "she will have a lot of jewels in her crown in heaven..."

I asked her "What did you say, Ellie?" She repeated that "Mrs. Taylor will have a lot of jewels in her crown in heaven because of all of the suffering she is experiencing on earth!"

"WOW!" Did my 7 year old just put that together? If there is any question that God can speak through children it was in this moment. I love that she can understand that this is not our one and only life and that suffering brings God glory.

Thank you Ellie for helping me see God at work in you!

Love,

Mommy

Now if we are children, then we are heirs—heirs of God and co-heirs with Christ, if indeed we share in his sufferings in order that we may also share in his glory. I consider that our present sufferings are not worth comparing with the glory that will be revealed in us. (Romans 8:17-18)