Nicole (9 Dec 2010)
"To ChrisK:  Ref A Place in Heaven"

 
Dear ChrisK,
I am so glad you liked my post.   I am 32 years old and it is very sad but my father was brain damaged in a car accident when I was a baby, which the impact to the brain gave him schizophrenia.   My mother had to walk out on him on Thanksgiving day when I was little because he would have harmed me.   So I grew up with an adoptive dad who worked long, long hours and would be so tired he would watch television to unwind.

Sometimes when I was little, I would wait for him to come home from work and sleep in the front hallway with my "dollies" to see him.   I find it very funny how the Lord is using my "dollies" of pink elephant, Big Bird and the Wizard of Oz as a sign that I should wait for Jesus until He opens the Rapture Door!  

I am 32, but I am still a little girl!  Maybe my spirit is really 6 years old!  Ha Ha!    I find it very sweet when my mother buys me a doll for Christmas from my childhood.   She likes to do it in private so that others don't look at me weird.

About 6 months ago?  I was walking in Walmart and they brought back this Barbie Doll my deceased grandmother bought me.  It was my FAVORITE doll ever and it was the Peaches and Cream Barbie from 1985.  I almost bought it, but it was $50.   I just felt that the Lord knows every single desire of my heart, He remembers who I was in times past, and all of that has accumulated in Heaven.   I keep feeling that my house in Heaven will hold special things like this from my entire life as a testament unto the saving power of the cross!  These are not coincidences!