I never knew this little girl but we met her mother at a Grief Share meeting years ago after our 16-year-old son Robbie Stalets left our lives for a while. Since our son leaving I have been on a quest to know all possible about heaven and the reality of eternal life and found there is 1000 times more we can know than what most people think. Cloe is FOREVER linked as your daughter and EVERYTHING in God's word confirms that. The FACT that God's total desire and new commandment to us is to love Him and others is proof that relationships are FOREVER and are the most important thing to God and us whether we know it or not. This fact sets the stage for our hope that those we grieve for, the things we grieve for in life, will certainly be again and occur and Jesus wants us to KNOW that. The sweetness in Cloe has now been made perfect as she is living in a place that reunites family and friends to a life and place that is truly home. It is not my grief that pushes me to a solid belief Cloe and Robbie are aware, at least to some degree, of their loved ones here. The restoring redemptive work of Christ is directly about that and those that assume God must somehow wipe memories to allow for peace, love, and joy are mistaken and short-sighted in the matter. Cloe and Robbie and all our loved ones wait in patient joy for the plan to be fulfilled and our joining them. Cloe didn't miss out on anything except some of the pain of life here. Instead, she was blessed beyond measure. I often contemplate this with my son and understand the root of our great love for our children and others is to want the best for THEM, not ourselves. Although it more often seems so far away, we will look back and this terrible time of grief will be wiped out not by the loss of the memory (our memories make us who we are) but by the fact that we are finally with them again. As if that wasn't enough we will also realize separation and death will never occur again. Imagine actually realizing that is our current reality, oh what a day that will be! We will reunite and pick up life there forever with all the simple yet profound most important things to God and man. Things like interacting and catching up talking about all the different ever-changing things that our lives will continue to experience. Purpose and plans, the choice to do what we want, get involved where we want, to go and see or do what we want. Life will be lived and shared. Gatherings of family and friends and interaction. Sharing the joy of others' lives and God Himself is the entire purpose of the cross and salvation as all the things God created remain and only the curse and sin are removed.
A life full of all the things you long for now will be forever as it is overshadowed by the Lord Himself who has the heart of a parent that wants nothing more than that.
Let us therefore not forget this great thing God has done and the Incredible gift we are given that waits for us and run this race in a manner to get that prize. I will never stop thinking and loving and missing my son as you won't Cloe. Set your eyes and heart attention on what's coming and together we will endure until God says we don't have to anymore.
It makes me smile to know my son's heart and soul and to know life is connected both here and there. In heaven, lives are connected as they are here but in a greater way as that is our final destination. Understanding what will forever be as relationships are tied in eternity I know Robbie and Cloe know each other just as our lives here have become eternally connected.
Im glad to know my boy is ok and life is very good for him as I know you are for Cloe.
Thank you Stacie for allowing the pain in your life to be there for others. He used you to help us in ways I cannot describe.
She is such a sweet girl can't wait to meet her.