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THE LETTER
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 canI 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 anymore? 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 of 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 heal ways kept
them. She laid down across his bed and cried herself to sleep
holding his pillow. Sally woke up about midnight and laying beside of her on
the bed, was a letter folded up?
She opened the letter, 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.
Someday 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, 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.
Jesus 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, 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 came to get me. The Angel said I was Special Delivery!
Signed with love from: God & Jesus & Me.
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