ali cried

on our weekend away we looked at revelation 21-22
and ali came up to me with a question:
would we be sad in heaven to think about our friends and family who weren't there?
and i told her - no death, mourning, crying or pain.
and she began to cry
i wasn't sure what exactly had made her cry, but it hit me then that all of this is so real.
there are the people who think it's all made up, but here was ali, expressing the deepest emotions about these questions because she knows that this stuff is true. and it is. and there's no more justified cause for her tears than these truths. and i prayed that i'd believe it that much.