| GOD, JESUS AND ME
Sally jumped up as soon as she saw the Surgeon come
out of the operating room. She said: "How is
my little boy? Is he going to be O.K.? When can I
see him?"
The Surgeon said, "I'm sorry, we did all we
could." Sally said, "Why do little children
get cancer? Doesn't GOD care any more? GOD, where
were you when my son needed you?"
The Surgeon said, "One of the nurses will be
out in a few minutes to let you spend time with your
son's remains before it's transported to the university."
Sally asked that the nurse stay with her while she
said good-bye to her son.
Sally ran her fingers through his thick red curly
hair. The nurse said, "Would you like a lock
of his hair?" Sally nodded yes. The nurse cut
a lock of his hair and put it in a plastic bag and
handed it to Sally. Sally said, "It was Jimmy's
idea to give his body to the university for study.
He said it might help somebody else," and that
is what he wanted.
I said no at first, but Jimmy said, "Mom I won't
be using it after I die. Maybe it will help some other
little boy to be able to spend one more day with his
mother." Sally said, "My Jimmy had a heart
of gold, always thinking of someone else and always
wanting to help others if he could."
Sally walked out of the Children's Hospital for the
last time now after spending most of the last 6 months
there. She sat the bag with Jimmy's things in it on
the seat beside her in the car. The drive home was
hard and it was even harder to go into an empty house.
She took the bag to Jimmy's room and started placing
the model cars and things back in his room exactly
where he always kept them. She lay down across his
bed and cried herself to sleep holding his pillow.
Sally woke up about midnight, and lying beside her
on the bed was a letter folded up. She opened the
letter and it said:
Dear Mom,
I know your going to miss me, but don't think that
I will ever forget you or stop loving you because
I'm not around to say I LOVE YOU. I'll think of you
every day mom, and I'll love you even more each day.
Some day we will see each other again.
If you want to adopt a little boy so you won't be
so lonely, he can have my room and my old stuff to
play with. If you decide to get a girl instead, she
probably wouldn't like the same things as us boys
do, so you will have to buy her dolls and stuff girls
like.
Don't be sad when you think about me. This is really
a great place. Grandma and Grandpa met me as soon
as I got here and showed me around some, but it will
take a long time to see everything here. The angels
are so friendly and I love to watch them fly.
Jesus doesn't look like any of the pictures I saw
of Him, but I knew it was Him as soon as I saw Him.
He took me to see GOD! And guess what mom? I got to
sit on GOD'S knee and talk to Him like I was somebody
important. I told GOD that I wanted to write you a
letter and tell you good-bye and everything, but I
knew that wasn't allowed.
God handed me some paper and His own personal pen
to write you this letter with. I think Gabriel is
the name of the angel that is going to drop this letter
off to you.
God said for me to give you the answer to one of
the questions you asked Him about -- where was He
when I needed him? God said, "The same place
He was when Jesus was on the cross. He was right there,
as He always is with all His children. "
Oh, by the way Mom, nobody else can see what is written
on this paper but you. To everyone else, it looks
like a blank piece of paper.
I have to give God His pen back now. He has some
more names to write in the Book Of Life. Tonight I
get to sit at the table with Jesus for Supper. I'm
sure the food will be great.
I almost forgot to let you know -- Now I don't hurt
anymore and the cancer is all gone. I'm glad because
I couldn't stand that pain anymore. And God couldn't
stand to see me suffer the pain either, so He sent
The Angel of Mercy to get me. The Angel said I was
Special Delivery!
Signed with love from:
God, Jesus and
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