My son has half of a heart. It’s the easiest way to explain his Congenital heart defect that people seem to understand and remember. When I was pregnant with Jace, another “heart mom” whose son has the same condition as Jace told me that our kids have half of a heart and Jesus has the other half of it. This has always given me comfort, but I felt like I was missing a piece of the puzzle with this idea that Jesus has half of Jace’s heart. God wanted to show me something else about this topic.

This week, the week of Jace’s second open heart surgery, God has really impressed on me that we live in a fallen world. We are surrounded by sickness, sadness, imperfections. This world isn’t perfect, no one is perfect, and we are all broken. This isn’t our long term home, it’s temporary. Nothing is a guarantee. When we are home with Jesus in heaven, then we will be whole. No more tears, no more pain.

When  Jace meets his Savior, He will take Jace’s half of a heart and give him a whole heart. But I pray that while Jace is here on earth, he will give the Lord his whole heart and follow Him. We will be whole when we are with the Lord in heaven, but while we are here, we can get a new heart if we choose to follow the Lord.