Beautiful Life

Akiane Kramarik- child prodigy. At the age of 4 her talent for painting and writing poetry was discovered. When asked where her inspiration came from her answer was, "When I am away in Heaven with God." She grew up in an atheist home, she had no TV, she had no newspaper or computer, and she lived in Idaho. She had no source of imagination to create these wonderful scenes of the Heavens. After painting a detailed work of the cosmos, an astrologist visited Akianes home and asked, "How did you know where those stars were?"  She answered, "Jesus took me there."
A boy named Colton Burpo was dying in the hospital from sever appendicitis at the age of 4. He was in surgery for no more than 3 min. when he came out exclaiming to his parents that he had been in Heaven for what felt like thousands of years. His parents tried to trip him up to test and see if he had been telling the truth, asking him questions like, "where did you go when it got dark?" "Where was Jesus sitting in Heaven?" "Where did God sit?" He answered each one correctly in correlation with what we know from the Bible. "It doesn't get dark." "God sits on the thrown (<-- a word he did not know before his operation)." "And Jesus in front of his Daddy on the right."
Colton told his parents a story of seeing and hanging out with his great grandpa... when shown a picture of him as an old man Colton said, "no, thats not him, people in Heaven aren't old and they don't have glasses." However, when shown a picture of his great grandpa in his prime, he exclaimed, "YES! thats him."
Colton also said that he had met his sister... Colton had one sister, she was alive. But what Colton's parents had never told him was that they had had a miscarriage late enough in the pregnancy to see hair on the baby's head and to find out the gender. Colton went on to say that she isn't a baby anymore, she has grown, God had adopted her, and she is waiting for a name from her parents.

When this boy's story was shared, people wanted to know what Jesus looked like. People would show him pictures of the "ideal Jesus." With every picture shown to Colton, he would see something wrong with it... the nose wasn't right, the eyes weren't right, the face structure was all wrong. Colton was introduced to Akiane because they shared similar stories... When shown a picture Akiane painted of Jesus... Colton was speechless for nearly 10 min. He just stared at it. "That is Him." All that he said.

I dont know the particular reason God chose these couple of children to reveal himself in such a spectacular way! but I do know that He has consumed the very beings of these children, God is all they know and He is more real to them than anything on earth. These beautiful children have looked into the face of God and have lived to tell about it here on earth for a purpose. May their stories be shared across the world so that everyone may be convinced that Heaven is a place, not only is it a place, it is a sanctuary. A place were we will never become burdened or bored or weary. May this story bring you hope for the coming age! When his Glory will Reign and Rule over the nations and over these many generations! COME LORD and have YOUR way with us! Your people surrender to your will!
A Warrior for the King,
Bekah Mezera