Think for a minute with me kids. Who loves you, your Momma, your Dad, your Gramma or Grandpa? Does your big sister or brother love you? How about your teacher or Sunday school teacher or a nice neighbor? Some love you a lot, like your Momma, while others, maybe your big brother or neighbor not so much. What do they do? They listen to you, they give you what you need, they care about you, they help you feel good, they have fun with you and make you smile and laugh, they help you be yourself.
A little three-year-old boy, named Colton, went to heaven, met God and Jesus and came back and told his parents over and over that Jesus really really loves children. He repeated many times that Jesus really really loves children. So besides those others that love you, Jesus and his Father (God) love you, too. You can’t see God or touch Him. When Jesus was on Earth people could touch Him, but now He is in heaven. However, you can still talk to him, and He is with you in ways you can’t see.
So what is it like where He is. In heaven there is lots of love. Everybody loves. There are no bad people there. All animals are friendly and none can hurt you. You can pet a lion and ride a kangaroo or turtle. You can fall down and not get hurt. In fact, children jump out of trees and float down like cotton balls. In one game they play, one child floats in the air above a circle of children and they push him or her around the circle, from one side to the other. There is lots of giggling and laughter. The children are having lots of fun. Sometimes they ride horses and the horses love the children, too. You can play with the pretty rocks at the bottom of the lake or river and never drown. Nothing can ever hurt you ever. One man said after seeing the children in heaven, he wished he could be a child in heaven. You will have school in heaven. It will be fun and not hard, but you will study and learn things even your Mom and Dad don’t know. One person saw an amusement park. It was better and more fun than any amusement park here on Earth. You never get tired or sick there, and you never have to take a nap. You don’t have to eat anything, but if you do the fruit is delicious, better than any fruit here. One person saw fruit that was like ice cream growing on a tree!
Where is heaven you might wonder. Can you go see it, just for a visit like Colton did? Heaven is not like anything in this world. God made it very different even though things there are like things here. So it is not anywhere in the sky. It is clear outside everything we can see even with powerful telescopes. And you can’t go there. You can only get there by dying, and that is no fun. Colton got very very sick to visit there, and he did not want to get sick like that again. Someday you will go there, but probably not come back. Make sure you love Jesus. Colton empathically (big word meaning he really really meant it) said you have to have Jesus in your heart in order to see heaven. You can be thankful that God and Jesus love you so much that that they have made this wonderful place called heaven for you when your life on Earth is over. Just remember Jesus and His Father God love you very very much.