Little bits of heaven

Sometimes they can last a day- or just minutes... those perfect moments in time. There are so many in my life- finally saying I love you after a year of feeling it, sitting on a balcony in Moorea with my new husband watching the sunrise; truly feeling God for the first time; seeing our peanut on the sonogram for the first time... Those sweet moments that are so good you forget that anything bad has ever happened in your life. Those are the moments I wish I could hold onto forever and relive over and over. They've been short and simple as a day in the park- watching my son go down the slide by himself. Or they have lasted days like when Dave and I drove up to Santa Barbara to plan our wedding. Today I had one of those moments- Isaiah and I are both sick with colds so neither of us feel great. As I was lying on the couch, Isaiah climbed up into my lap, looked into my eyes and said "mommy". It wasn't what he said, it was the way he said it- like he was saying I love you. His little voice so deep and innocent. The way he looked at me with those big brown eyes and smiled afterwards, the way he snuggled with me. At that moment I thought, I would live this moment over and over, sore throat, stuffy nose and all, it didn't even matter. Maybe God gives us these perfect moments to let us know what Heaven feels like.