I have received many beautiful stories over the past few years from parents/caregivers whose young children have shared personal stories. Here are a couple of my favorites:

I Love You More (From Wayne Dyer’s Book, Memories of Heaven)

My son was around age four when we were playing “I love you more because.” I told him, “I love you beyond infinity, around the moon two times, around Mars and touching every star on the way back to you”, pretty good, right? At least that is what I thought until, very seriously my son places his hands on either side of my face, locked his crystal blue eyes with mine and said, “Mommy, I love you more because I picked you while I was in Heaven.”

Needless to say, he won.

A story from a friend about her 5 year old, Billy

Five year old Billy had a best friend, Carlos, who he played T-ball with every Saturday. Carlos passed after he was given the wrong medicine and a friend put together a memory book and asked all of his friends to contribute. Here is a letter than Billy wrote to Carlos:

Dear Carlos,

You will be a newborn on another day. You will know the magic of jumping down from heaven.

You will always be my friend.

Billy