\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/i><\/b>My husband grew up as the eldest child in a family of three. The family had very little when they started off, and their father was planting tung-oil trees at a new plantation in the northern part of New Zealand at the time that he was born. There were three children in quick succession\u2026..two boys and a girl. It seemed that the family was now complete with the three children.<\/p>\n
The family then moved to a small cottage on a two acre property in a small settlement on the shores of one of the northern harbours.<\/p>\n
When the little girl (Audrey) had got to the stage of crawling around the floor, they were living in this cottage. One evening as their mother was doing the vegetables for tea, a pumpkin seed fell on the floor. Audrey crawled along and picked it up and as babies do, put it into her mouth. But instead of it going down smoothly, she choked on it, and it went down the wrong way. Her mother picked her up and slapped her on the back to no avail, it just seemed stuck half way.<\/p>\n
So they called\u00a0 a friend from further around the road\u00a0 who had a vehicle, and rushed her off to the local hospital. The oldest boy could just remember the kerfuffle of that evening, but not any real details.<\/p>\n
The doctor looked at the child and said she had better be left in hospital overnight. Meantime, the next day the doctor went down the harbour on a fishing trip he had already arranged. That night however, both mother and father woke up with a start as they\u00a0heard the most beautiful, unearthly music in their house.<\/p>\n
Remember,\u00a0 they had no means of playing music whatsoever. They\u00a0 wondered\u00a0 where this music came from, it had such a sweet haunting sound, and they discussed it together. How could it be?<\/p>\n
But the next day\u00a0 they had a message from the hospital saying that their\u00a0 little girl had\u00a0 died\u00a0 the night before with\u00a0 the pumpkin seed going\u00a0 into\u00a0\u00a0 her\u00a0 lungs. They\u00a0 now had the explanation for that beautiful music they had heard at that time. They both felt that it must\u00a0 have\u00a0 been\u00a0 sent from God as He heralded their little girl into His presence.<\/p>\n
It was many years\u00a0 before their mother could forgive herself for her carelessness in dropping that seed on the floor and she was always most particular when the grandchildren came along to never let\u00a0 anything fall on the floor where they were crawling.<\/p>\n
Many years later little Audrey\u2019s namesake (another Audrey) suffered\u00a0 from copious menstrual periods while a teenager. One day,\u00a0 she\u00a0 had\u00a0 lost so\u00a0 much\u00a0 blood that she fainted while in the toilet. There was\u00a0 no\u00a0\u00a0 way\u00a0\u00a0 the\u00a0 bleeding\u00a0\u00a0 could\u00a0\u00a0 be stopped\u00a0 and\u00a0 they\u00a0 rushed\u00a0\u00a0 her\u00a0 into the nearest hospital. She was so far gone, that \u00a0she could hear the music of\u00a0 heaven\u00a0 as\u00a0 she was\u00a0 going\u00a0 in she said\u2026.. it\u00a0 was\u00a0 the most beautiful\u00a0 music she had ever heard. The doctors\u00a0\u00a0 were\u00a0\u00a0 horrified to find how little blood she had left when they\u00a0 gave her the transfusion that brought her back to life.<\/p>\n
These two small glimpses into the portals of heaven show us what a place of beauty and peace it must be<\/p>\n
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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0My husband grew up as the eldest child in a family of three. The family had very little when they started off, and their father was planting tung-oil trees at a new plantation in the northern part of New Zealand at the time that he was born. There were three children in quick succession\u2026..two boys … Continue reading Heaven is a Beautiful Place!<\/span>