Is It Okay to Wonder About Loved Ones in Heaven?

Randy Alcorn, founder of EPM
By Randy Alcorn
March 27, 2013
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In this audio Q&A, Randy answers the question "Is it okay to wonder about loved ones in Heaven?"

Randy Alcorn (@randyalcorn) is the author of fifty-some books and the founder and director of Eternal Perspective Ministries. 

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I am struck by the compulsion we have to speak words of kindness and impact and grief and consolation about those who have left this world. Where does this deep-seated sense of attachment come from?

Answered by Randy Alcorn

It comes from God. He is the Father of this family we enjoy. We rightly sense that our relationship with them has not been terminated, only interrupted, and we know that some day each of us will be taken from this world, in one moment separated from some we love and in the same moment reunited with others we love, and ...