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I try to be as up front and real with my kids as I can. That does not mean that I always use adult or medical terms with them- I definately do watch my language and change the wording and tone I use and make it as relatable to their world as I can. This includes conversations about death, Heaven, and medical conditions. For example they are aware that sometimes people get so sick that doctors and medicine doesn’t make the person feel better and as a result the only one to take their sickness or germs or pain away is God. God brings you to Heaven to make you not hurt anymore and take away what can’t be fixed by the doctors and the medicine. For example, they know that some people die of cancer and when they go to Heaven they don’t have cancer anymore. They know that if you’re on machines to help you breath or keep your heart working to keep you alive, when you go to Heaven you don’t need those machines anymore. It’s the faith of healing that has made death seem a little less scary and a little less of the final, ultimate end.

One of my youngest has a condition that is unlike other medical conditions it can not be “fixed”. There is no surgery nor medicine to take her condition away. How she is, is how she will be and we take a “learn how to adjust” way of life instead of a “somethings wrong, now how do we fix it” appoach. We have to adjust ourselves sometimes to her, her schedule, and her needs. Many doctors appointments have been added to our calender for her.

Even though I’ve had similar conversations with her before, trying to explain to my oldest about her sisters condition tonight had quite a different effect on me. So in the midst of discussing the condition in as best of kid terms as I can she interupts and says “when she goes to heaven she’ll be ok”. I had to ask her to say it again becuase I wasn’t 100% sure that I heard her correctly. “Its ok, mommy. When she goes to Heavsn she won’t have that anymore. God will make her better”. To some, talking about death is morbid and this could have led to a totally different discussion.  But becuase I try to be as honest as I can with them and instill a level of faith, this comment hit every heartstring there was. That moment she didn’t say something negative about her sister or if she thought it was hard on her to see her sister live with something different than herself,  or if she was mad or sad that she was born the way she was. Instead she said with such faith and 1000% belief in the words that God will make her better when she goes to Heaven. I was in awe at how such a child can have such beautiful faith and grace. Needless to say the next few sentences out of my own mouth were said with tears wtartung in the eyes and getting choked up on some words. I don’t know if the conversation had more an effect on me or her.