Yesterday, while scrolling through Facebook, I read my friend Beverly’s happy birthday message for her mom. The post included several pictures of family members with the woman being celebrated, including one in which Beverly’s mother was with her twin sister, Beverly’s aunt. The caption to this photo described it as the twin sisters together before her aunt “moved to heaven.”
What a beautiful way to mention a loved one who was no longer with them here on earth, that was! She didn’t die. She didn’t pass on. She didn’t leave them. She simply moved her residence to a new address.
This reminds me of the Bible study I’ve been reading with another friend, Heaven: When Faith Becomes Sight by Jennifer Rothschild. I’m not done reading this Bible study yet, but I can already say the author has done an amazing job of answering some questions about heaven and helping put other questions that don’t have easy or clear answers into a healthy perspective.
Jennifer Rothschild uses Scripture and inspirational teaching from other Bible scholars to lead the reader down a path of understanding what our finite minds can about our eternity. “Let not your heart be troubled. Cast your eyes past the shadows of this life to that bright beautiful forever God has for you” (Rothschild, 2025, p. 34).
As I read through this study, I will share things that “jump off” the pages at me. I pray you find something in the words I write that will lead you to pick up this Bible study and read it for yourself. Until then, I’ll leave you with this message from the Apostle Paul in 1 Corinthians 13:12, “For now we see only a reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.”
Rothschild, J. (2025) When faith becomes sight, Heaven. Lifeway Press.
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