The Day the Sky Changed

The Day the Sky Changed

A reflection from a life Yahweh wouldn’t let go

I didn’t know it was Heaven at first.
I didn’t know the blue sky I saw wasn’t of this world, or that the joy vibrating in my body was the sound of angels.
I didn’t know that the man beside me—smiling so wide I thought his face might split with gladness—was Yahweh Himself.

But He was.

And I was there.

And the sky was the color of eternity, the kind of blue that can’t be painted or mixed or printed because it doesn’t exist on this side of the veil.
And the thunder I heard wasn’t a storm.
It was the applause of angels.
For me.

I still don’t understand it.
I only know it was love.
Radiant, weighty, glorious love—that saw me, celebrated me, welcomed me.
And in that moment, I wasn’t what I had been.

I wasn’t the girl who lost a baby to abortion.
I wasn’t the one who wept over the miscarriage that followed.
I wasn’t the teenager who dropped out of high school or the angry, hardened woman who tried to survive filth, addiction, abuse, grief, and regret.
I wasn’t the wife who almost walked out.
I wasn’t the woman who opened things and lost them—
The business, the venue, the dream, the dignity.

I was just His.
And the applause wasn’t pity.
It was recognition.
Heaven knew me.

I didn’t get here because I was strong.

I didn’t claw my way to Heaven.
I didn’t ascend some ladder of good choices.
I fell.
Again and again.

But somehow, Yahushua got to me first.
Before I found religion.
Before I cleaned up.
Before I even knew who I was.

He came to me when I was still choking on the smoke of trauma,
still trapped in lies,
still blaming everyone but myself,
still running from pain I couldn’t name.

He found me.
He stood beside me.
He smiled like a proud PaPa.
And He let me taste what I didn’t yet understand.

It took me months to realize it was Him.
Because even in our own minds, we cannot see the Glory of God while buried in sin.
But slowly, the veil lifted.
And I began to remember—
Not just what I saw… but Who saw me.

Rooted in the Word:

“And I saw a renewed heaven and a renewed earth… And I, Yoḥanan, saw the set-apart city, renewed Yerushalayim, coming down out of the heaven from Elohim, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband… And the city had no need of the sun… for the esteem of Elohim lightened it, and the Lamb is its lamp.”
—Revelation 21:1–2, 23 (TSR2009)

Declaration:

I am not who I was.
I have been seen, known, and celebrated in Heaven.
Yahushua went first.
He opened the way.
And because of Him, I am walking forward into a future already redeemed.
No shame, no striving—just His love, lighting my path.
In Yahushua’s Name, I declare it.

Share Your Faith:

Have you ever tasted something holy before you could name it?
A moment, a sound, a light that called you Home?
Don’t let it go.
Tell someone.
You never know who else is waiting to remember what Heaven already knows about them.