Heaven is...

This past weekend one of the students from our school died as a result of a car accident. Jack was 4 years old and in one of or DK classes. He was sleeping in his carseat when their car was hit. His mother was on her way to the schools to pick up her older son who is in second grade.

We spent a lot of time talking about what happened in our kindergarten classroom. We answered questions and talked about how Jack is now in heaven. To help the kids process a bit more what death means and give them a chance to imagine why heaven is like, we gave them the opportunity to draw. The pictures they came up with we're amazing!!
Here are just a few of them:

Rise church arise...

I absolutely have fallen in love with this song. Whenever I listen to it I imagine standing with arms raised with my whole congregation crying out to God.
The song is titled "Our God's Alive" and it speaks to the most wonderful, awe-inspiring mystery in all of history- that Jesus Christ conquered DEATH itself. He bore the sin of the world, and died to it, but then rose from the dead!!! And the story doesn't just stop there, oh no. He now lives, and is living, in each one of us! We can now have life. And life eternal! What hope we have! Thank you LORD for redeeming us, and bringing us into your glorious riches!

"Our God's Alive"
By Andy Cherry

Come on everyone
See what He has done
He has lifted us,
He has overcome,
The power of the grave
And the sin that once enslaved
Couldn't hold Him in the ground
Couldn't keep Him down

Rise with a shout,
Cry out our God's alive
Rise holy fire, burn bright, burn bright
Rise with a shout,
Cry out for freedom
Rise church, arise
Our God's alive

Reigning on His throne
Drawing ever close
Giving us this hope
He'll never let us go
Oh, death has been defeated
Jesus Christ, Redeemer
Conquered hell and freed us
Forever we are saved

Rise with a shout,
Cry out our God's alive
Rise holy fire, burn bright, burn bright
Rise with a shout,
Cry out for freedom
Rise church, arise
Our God's alive

He alone can save us
He will not forsake us
He remains forever,
Our savior

See Him reign in power
Stronger than our failures
Always and forever,
Our savior

If you have time I urge you to take a listen. Meditate on the glorious victory Christ has already won, for you and for me.
Here's the link:

http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&cd=1&ved=0CB0QtwIwAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DbX5uSguogQM&ei=RN4zT93QIcbY0QH5tODTAg&usg=AFQjCNFrq7W0b2w2HgEi5Nc-65I5sp4Wsg
(you might have to copy that into your URL)