The grandpas of all grandpas.  The try it, do it, fun it, picture it and keep it… up.   That’s Bill.  He’s the:

• pull my finger
• don’t eat my green M&Ms
• Looney Tunes time
• Disneyland
• horsey rides
• baseball catcher
• Cheez-Its
• Rindercella
• piles of Christmas presents
• legos

grandpa.  He tops the list.  He wins the universe trophy.  “Bill” means “grandpa.”

But Grandpa is gone and missing out on grandpahood.  All that grandpaness went home to Heaven with Grandpa.

Whoosh!  That is just sad.  Sad for me, sad for littlebears.  Sad.

Randy Alcorn eases the sad in his book, Heaven.  He says of the New Heaven, “Perhaps they’ll go together to places they would have gone if health had allowed… Their gracious God, who delights in redemption and renewal and restoration, will give the wonderful family times they were robbed of on the old Earth…  Perhaps he will in some way actually restore what (was) lost.  God won’t just take away suffering; he’ll compensate by giving us greater delights.”

”God promises to make up for the heartbreaks of this earth.”

Soak that one in.  Just let it go down deep.  All the missed-outs, all the grandpaness, Cheez-Its, baseball, and presents — all made up.  Nothing missed after all.  Every last special moment redeemed.  And more.

Lookout Grandpa Bill!  Grandpahood is just ahead!