There will be dress up clothes in heaven!

Our friend Carrie laughing with chocolate covered ballet girls.

Anna the pig, and Rachel the clown.

Betty's dog Joyful passed a few months ago, and this spurred an ongoing discussion of death and heaven and Grampa Phil and Jowan, our neighbor who died last year. Anna found a drawing in her Bible of heaven depicted as a golden, glowing castle on the clouds. Well, it hardly seemed the time to explain to her Adam's and my recent musings on how the Biblical idea of the "new heaven and new earth" conflicts with traditional ideas of heaven. So I just responded, "Yes, honey, when we die, we'll all be princesses in the Kingdom of God." "Will we be brides?" Anna asked? "Yes, we'll all be princess brides." So over the last few months, usually during pillow talk, more heaven questions have popped up randomly, "Will there be beds in heaven? When are we going to die? When is ____ going to die? Will ________ be in heaven with us? and on and on." Well, tonight, after several such questions, Rachel thought for a long time and asked, "Will there be dress up clothes in heaven," and this one I confidently knew the answer to, "Yes, there will definitely be dress up clothes in heaven!"

(If you haven't been to our house recently, then I should let you know that the girls favorite toy is a trunk full of dress up clothes, and their dextrous ability to change clothes 5 times in 5 minutes has amazed many a visitor! Their dance and circus trick routines grow more complex and daring by the day!)