Our Daily Bread

Why would a 10-year-old girl tie a note to a helium-filled balloon and send it on its way to heaven? According to columnist Bob Greene, a grieving Illinois girl named Sarah sent a letter to her grandfather, who had died before she could have one last visit with him. The envelope was addressed to “Grandpa Bernie, in heaven up high.” It represented a little girl’s expression of love, and her hope that somehow Grandpa would read it.