n 1984, God placed within our family a child born with severe cerebral palsy. A blessing in disguise, she touched our lives in ways only God could orchestrate. We enjoyed Lysandra's presence here on earth for thirteen years. On Christmas Day, 1997, she had a seizure leaving her in a coma for five days before the Lord took her to His eternal home in Heaven.

A season filled with joy...now pierced our hearts.

The severe seizure lasted for three hours, raising Lysandra's body temperature to 107 degrees causing damage to her internal organs. She was in a coma for five days as we slowly watched her organs shut down. We were faced with the decision to place Lysandra on life support, then faced with the heart-breaking decision to remove life support. During those five days God kept showing me scriptures about Heaven. As a result, I wrote the poem Christmas in Heaven.

Christmas has always been my favorite season because the whole world is singing about our Savior, Jesus Christ. The fact that God took Lysandra home in the season when everyone was singing His praises seemed strangely fitting and appropriate.

The poem speaks so deeply to the hearts of people because it is based on scripture and God speaks to us through His word.

“For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works,
which God prepared beforehand that we should walk with them.”
~ Ephesians 2:10

“...in Your book they all were written, the days fashioned for me,
when as yet there were none of them.”
~ Psalm 139:16